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On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:18:17PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Siegfried Heintze wrote:
>>What is the relationship between cygwin, windows and these formats and
>>libraries?  Can I use these linux libraries to read debug information
>>in images created with g++ on cygwin?
>>
>>If not, how do I read the debug information in images created with g++
>>on cygwin?
>
>The gcc / binutils / gdb distributed with Cygwin use stabs.  I believe
>that patches to get dwarf2 working have been submitted, and in theory
>if you build your own toolchain you should be able to do this.
>
>But "extracting debug info" is way too vague of a term to offer any
>meaningful help.  You'd have to state exactly what you're trying to do.
>Try "man objdump" or "objdump -g file", or read the binutils/bfd
>internals manuals.

But despite all of this, I'm sure Igor is still pleased...

cgf

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