Information AboutDwarf |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT DWARF | |
| debugging data formats | |
| SHOPPER'S DELIGHT | |
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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 It proved to be excessively voluminous, and it was superseded by an incompatible successor DWARF-2, which added various encoding schemes to reduce data size.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 |