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- From: franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: HP debug information format
- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:03:08
- Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
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- Message-ID: <FRANL.92Nov20180308@draco.centerline.com>
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- In-reply-to: stuart@TIVOLI.COM's message of 19 Nov 92 18:03:19 GMT
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- stuart@TIVOLI.COM (Stuart Jarriel) writes:
-
- After working on multiple platforms for a while I am starting to
- question the format that HP compilers store their debug format in.
- I dont doubt that the format is well suited for the task, but rather
- that it is kept private.
- ...
- it would be oh-so-nice if another debugger could
- read and debug the object files.
- ...
- What (if anything) can be done to get the
- debug format information released?
-
- I've heard that HP changed its position and will allow gdb (and thus
- everyone) to know the HP debug symbol format. I don't know when a
- version of gdb that works with HP's compilers will be available.
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