From: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Debugging information in COFF/EXE files
Date: 17 Jun 1998 09:43:10 GMT
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On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:04:26 +0300 (IDT) in comp.os.msdos.djgpp Eli
Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

: Btw, it is quite possible that by rearranging some of the GDB and/or BFD 
: code you could make both GDB (in the DJGPP port) and any other code that 
: needs to access the debug info, much smaller.  Currently, we are linking 
: in a lot of BFD formats that are unsupported by DJGPP, like ELF, DWARF, 
: and what's not.  Last time I asked Robert about this, he told me that 
: removing those modules causes unresolved externals.  But those are 
: probably artificial problems, and at the very least writing empty stubs 
: for them will do.

I might look into this when I have my own computer connected to the
Internet again.  Until then downloading large files is impractical.

For now I have just modified syms.c to also get the information I am
interested in.  syms.c seems to support stabs and a.out formats too; I
haven't tried that though.

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