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David Anderson, September 20, 2010
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The dwarfgen application is intended as both a vehicle
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for testing dwarf-generation by libdwarf and as an example
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of how one uses libdwarf to generate DWARF.
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In addition, it should be useful as a test vehicle for
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evaluating future changes to the DWARF standard.
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It is necessary as a test-vehicle so that the libdwarf
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producer code can be updated to allow more recent features
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of DWARF to be supported while trying to guarantee current
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producer code users are correctly supported.
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By default dwarfgen produces a fake a.out. By that we mean
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that no relocation sections are written. Instead, relocations
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are processed directly by dwarfgen.
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Perhaps at some point a more a.out-like output will be optionally
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supported.
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