December 8, 2007

  Had to add an ugly configure conditional as libelf has

  unconditional use of off64_t in recent libelf.h

July 3, 2007

  Now with -v dwarf expression blocks in frame operations

  are printed expanded out.

July 2, 2007

  Added a new abi -x abi=general usable for any cpu with

  up to 1000 registers.

May 7, 2007

  Sun Microsystems contributes new dwarf.h extensions and a new -G option

  to dwarfdump -i (so one can see the 'global' offset to DIEs).

  Thanks to Chris Quenelle of Sun.

April 17, 2006

  New -x name=<conf file> -x abi=<abiname> and configuration file

  enable sensible printing of a wide range of .debug_frame eh_frame

  correctly without recompiling dwarfdump or touching libdwarf.h or

  dwarf.h.

March 29, 2005

  Now handles DWARF3. For non-MIPS objects, the list of register

  names in print_sections.c is not appropriate, #define

  DWARFDUMP_TURN_OFF_MIPS_REG_NAMES to turn off the MIPS names.

December 1, 2005

  Added new DWARF3 TAGs and ATtributes to the -k lists,

  clarified the -k reporting, and made the build more robust

  in the face of errors in the *.list relationship-spec-files.

August 1, 2005

  Now print_die.c deals with long loclists without a coredump.

  Added esb.h esb.c (and testesb.c for testing) to encapsulate 

  getting space for possibly-long strings.

  Now print_die.c uses snprintf() not sprintf (hopefully this

  will not inconvenience anyone, snprintf() has been available

  on most systems for years now).

  Altered print of location lists a little bit - for better appearance.

July 15, 2005

  Now completely frees all allocated memory. Various

  routines were not calling dealloc() code and

  new libdwarf dealloc routines are now used where those

  are needed.

  Now prints DWARF3 .debug_pubtypes section (with -a or -y).

  The .debug_pubtypes section and  SGI-specific .debug_typenames

  are equvalent so they are treated alike.

Mar 21, 2005

  The -f flag now prints only .debug_frame data. The .eh_frame section

  (GNU exceptions data) now prints with -F (not -a). 

  Printing gcc 3.3 or 3.4 .eh_frame with zR augmentation

  does not work at this time, so do not use -F

  to print such an object.

  The line section print now prints a CU-DIE offset for each such DIEs

  line information.   This makes it much easier to correctly associate

  -l (or -v -l) output with -v -v -l when debugging a faulty

  linetable in an executable.

  With -v -v -l (two -v) the output of line info continues to be a 

  completely different format than zero or one -v, the two-v

  form showing the detailed line table opcodes.

  With g++ 3.3.3 one sees bad line addresses at times as the 

  DW_LNE_set_address address for header files do not always 

  get their relocations applied.  I am told this is fixed in 3.4.x.

Mar 18, 2005

  In correcting printing of macro information the format

  of the macro (-m) output has changed substantially.

  Much more complete now.  Still could use enhancement.

Oct 28, 2004

  Updated contact address in copyright: SGI moved 1/4 mile

  to a new address: 1500 Crittenden Lane.

Oct 02, 2003

  Now fully supports .debug_loc section.

June 14, 2001

  Now calling a new function dwarf_get_arange_cu_header_offset()

  in libdwarf and printing the returned cu header offset for 

  aranges entries.   Making it easier to track down internal 

  errors in the dwarf2 data.  Also added small other

  consistency checks, printing a message and exit()ing on 

  error.

April 14, 2000

  The libdwarf copyright has changed to

     version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

  Anyone holding a version of libdwarf that was published

              before this new copyright

  is allowed to use

    the copyright published in that earlier libdwarf source

    on the earlier source

  or to use 

    this new copyright on the earlier source,

  at their option.

July 21, 1999

  Added gnu extensions to the frame information printer

  and handling for egcs eh_frame printing.

  libdwarf changes mean this now can print little-endian

  object dwarf on a big-endian system and vice-versa.

December, 1998

  added dwarfdump to the dwarf public source distribution.

June, 1994

  libdwarf consumer interface changed completely so updated to match.

May,  1993

  Initial version of dwarfdump  for dwarf version 2

  written at sgi.