DWARF 3.0 Standard

The DWARF 3.0 Debugging Format Standard is based on the DWARF 2.0 Standard. It is, with only limited exceptions, an upward-compatible extension to the previous standard.

The major enhancements in DWARF 3.0 are:

• Support debugging data files larger than 4 GBytes

• Allow references to debugging information entries in other shared libraries

• Support Fortran 90 modules as well as allocatable array and pointer types

• Support C (as revised for 1999)

• Support Java

• Namespace support for C++

• Add optional section for global type names

• Use UTF-8 for name strings

• Improved support for optimized code

• Improve the ability to eliminate duplicate debug info

The DWARF Version 3.0 Standard has been superceded by DWARF Version 4.

Download the DWARF 3.0 Standard: PDF or MS Word.