The first version of DWARF proved to use excessive amounts of storage, and it was superseded by an incompatible successor DWARF-2, which added various encoding schemes to reduce data size.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 . DWARF version 3, which was released in January 2006,
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