DWARF

For the medical condition, see DwarfismDWARF (short for Debug With Arbitrary Record Format although rarely seen that way) is a widely used, standardized debugging data format.

DWARF was originally introduced along with ELF.It proved to be excessively voluminous, and it was superseded by an incompatible successor DWARF-2, which added various encoding schemes to reduce data size.

DWARF was not immediately successful; for instance, when Sun Microsystems adopted ELF as part of their move to Solaris, they opted to continue using stabs, in an embedding known as stabs-in-elf. Linux followed suit, and DWARF-2 did not become the default until the late 1990s.

The DWARF version 3 specification was released in January 2006 .

References

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External links

* The DWARF Debugging Standard
* DWARF Debugging Information Format Specification Version 2.0
* libdwarf, a library and a tool (dwarfdump) to access DWARF information
* A set of tools to convert DWARF and ELF information into XML and use it to generate callgraphs