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The DWARF Debugging Information Format is of interest to programmers working on
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compilers and debuggers (and anyone interested in reading or writing DWARF
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information). It was developed by a committee (known as the PLSIG at the time)
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starting around 1991. Starting around 1991 SGI got involved with the committee
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and then developed the libdwarf and dwarfdump tools for SGI-internal use and as
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part of SGI IRIX developer tools. From around 1993 dwarfdump and libdwarf were
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shipped (as an executable and archive respectively, not source) with every
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release of the SGI MIPS/IRIX C compiler. In 1994 (I think the correct year) SGI
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agreed (at my request) to open-source libdwarf (and in 1999 to open-source
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dwarfdump) so anyone could use them.
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