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DWARF - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Mab, Oberon, Titania, Ace, Atom, Banshee, Bit, Brownie, Dab, Diminutive, Dole, Dominate, Dot, Dram |
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DWARF (short for Debug With Arbitrary Record Format although rarely seen that way) is a widely used, standardized debugging data format.
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It proved to be excessively voluminous, and it was superseded by an incompatible successor DWARF-2, which added various encoding schemes to reduce data size.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.
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Example Usage of DWARF |
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WillisLMiller: Could NASA Wide Infrared Survey Explorer Find Close Brown DWARF ? http://bit.ly/80cGXq |
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danish_novelist: @jennIRL Sad to hear about Seattle's Elliot Bay Books. I read from The Tsar's DWARF on my US book tour. Great place. #litchat |
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yomamaisaman: Anna Anka is getting a DWARF for her kids for x-mas..Why not? |
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