[linuxkernelnewbies] comp.os.linux.development.system: Re: Reading Linux Elf/Debugging Info

[Peter Teoh]

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.development.system/2003-07/0398.html Jonathan Magid wrote: > What I'm looking for is documentation on the format of ELF debugging > information in linux executables. Information on the C++ ABI would also > be nice. Anyone have a reference for me? There are at least two different debug formats used on Linux/x86 (and many others on other linux platforms), STABS and DWARF (1 and 2). However recent compilers mostly use DWARF2 (or 3, it's almost the same). To read that I suggest you look at Dave Anderson's libdwarf     http://reality.sgiweb.org/davea/ or, of course, gdb contains readers for many of the necessary formats. The DWARF spec is referenced from the avove page too. Enjoy.