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Planning notes for a tutorial covering DWARF concepts and the DWARF(3) API.
Concepts to be covered:
- Addresses
- differences with that on the native host
- size of
- manipulation of
- Compilation Units (CU)
- what they are
- version numbers
- accessing information about CUs
- using DIEs to describe CUs
- Debugging contexts
- Allocation of
- Debugging information entry (DIE)
- Tree structure via child/sibling links.
- Errors
- Returning errors via an error argument.
- Setting an error handler to catch errors.
- File structure
- Addressing objects inside a file
- Layout of content
- Sequencing of information
- Offsets
- CU-relative
- section relative
- Overview of API.
- Sections in use
- Contents
- Standard names
- Tags
- how used
- legal values
- where found in file
- Types in the API (i.e.,
Dwarf_XX)- Meanings & intended use of each type
- Version numbers
- where used
