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Re: Porting GDB - Where to start?
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Cc: James Sampson <i_am_triumph at ofir dot dk>, Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>, GDB Archive <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 08:16:17 +0200 (IST)
- Subject: Re: Porting GDB - Where to start?
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > In CCS you have the option to use COFF or DWARF. I was planning on using COFF,
> > because I have noticed some C54x COFF file thingies in the BFD, which could be
> > usable :-D. Do you know if they are?.
>
> If those are the two switches that's pretty bizarre. COFF is a file
> format, DWARF a debug info format.
Not 100% accurate, AFAIK: there's also COFF debug info format.
> You probably want DWARF (DWARF-2) which implies ELF format files.
DWARF-2 is also supported with COFF binary format. DJGPP uses that
combination.