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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:52:04 +0000
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Subject: Re: Debugging information in COFF/EXE files
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George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:

> Are there any libraries or small programs that make use of all of the
> debugging information in COFF files?  I know about the syms module
> (src/debug/common/syms.c IIRC) and GDB.
> 
> At the moment I am using the syms module, but it does not support
> location of local variables on the stack, among other things.  I have
> not been able to look at GDB because downloading such large sources is
> impractical for me at the moment.
> 
> As far as I can see, edebug32 and fsdb just use the syms module and do
> not support reading of local variables.
> 
> If it comes to the crunch and no suitable (small) library exists then
> I'll make my own, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.

I think there isn't such a library. But I think is better if you use the libgdb 
code because even when COFF is the default for djgpp a lot of people is moving 
to STABS. So you'll need to write support for both ... and what if we use DWARF 
;-)
COFF encoding is evil, some time ago I did a simple program to interpret the 
debug information using the description that DJ have in your pages and beleive 
me the COFF format is crazy.
I know gdb is bloated but the best is to use it. 
What's used by objdump?

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