DWARF2-XML: a markup language for DWARF2 debugging information

DTD for DWARF2-XML (about 5KB)
Sample DWARF2-XML document in .tgz (about 280KB)
readelf+
- A translator from a.out, *.o to DWARF2-XML documents for Solaris 8, based on readelf GNU Binutils 2.13.
- Patch for readelf in GNU Binutils 2.13 (about 14KB)
x_debug (about 70KB) --- Experimental debugger using DWARF2-XML for Solaris 8.
dxref (about 570KB) --- Experimental cross-referencer using DWARF2-XML.
- sample output: dxref_top.html
rxref (about 9KB) --- Hybrid version of dxref and GNU GLOBAL. (rxref is written in Ruby.)
- sample output: rxref_top.html
bscg (about 165KB) --- Experimental static call-graph generator using DWARF2-XML.
- sample output: bscg.gif (bscg.dot)| fact.gif (fact.dot)| fact-only.gif (fact-only.dot)| fact-nolocal.gif (fact-nolocal.dot)| fact-more.gif (fact-more.dot)| fact-callers.gif (fact-callers.dot)|
collect-all_struct.c code using libdwarf to do almost the same thing as "//tag[@name='DW_TAG_structure_type']" in XPath.
Published papers:
- Katsuhiko Gondow, Tomoya Suzuki and Hayato Kawashima: Binary-Level Lightweight Data Integration to Develop Program Understanding Tools for Embedded Software in C, Proc. of 11th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conf. (APSEC04), pp.336-345, 2004. pdf(370KB) ppt(380KB)

Sorry. This page is still under construction. (gondow @cs.titech.ac.jp)