At present, each C++ vendor is having their own extensions to the object
file format to support C++ symbols (for instance, gdb can only debug g++).
Does anyone know if elf/dwarf 2.0 address this issue?  I have searched the
local bookstores and the net for references to dwarf.  So far, the only thing
I came up with is the Nohr's book on Elf, which doesn't discuss dwarf.

I am grateful for any pointer.

Regards,

Hieu T. Tran

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Hieu Tran (hieu) wrote:

> At present, each C++ vendor is having their own extensions to the object
> file format to support C++ symbols (for instance, gdb can only debug g++).
> Does anyone know if elf/dwarf 2.0 address this issue?

Apparently not. It seems it doesn't address some of the "newer" features
of C++, like namespaces and exceptions.

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