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Subject: Re: Extracting Debug (meta data) from executable images?
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Siegfried Heintze wrote:

> I looked in c:\cygwin\usr\doc\ELFIO and there is a nice PDF file that refers
> to the examples directory. Where is this examples directory?
> 
> What is the relationship between stabs and ELF?

ELF is a file format for objects and executables that is used on linux
and other *nixes.  It is not used on windows, which uses PE/coff. 
Trying to run elfdump on a windows binary will never work.

Brian


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