Item: dwarf-expert
Rating: 5.7
Author: Implexa

dwarf-expert

Analyzes DWARF debug information in compiled binaries. Use when inspecting .debug_* sections, DIE trees, or DW_TAG_/DW_AT_ entries with…

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evaluated by implexa, claude-haiku-4-5 · 2026-06-26

dwarf-expert covers the dwarf debug format standard (v3-v5) including file parsing, standard questions, and code interaction. scope is deliberately bounded away from compilers, runtime debugging, and reverse engineering tools.

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DWARF Expert

Expertise for DWARF debug info: parsing and searching it, verifying its
integrity, answering questions about the standard, and writing code that
consumes it. Out of scope: runtime debugging (use gdb/lldb), reverse
engineering beyond the DWARF sections (use Ghidra/IDA), and compiler-specific
DWARF generation bugs.

Authoritative Sources

When precision matters, look standard details up instead of answering from memory:

dwarfstd.org — the official specification. Web-search specific sections,
e.g. "DWARF5 DW_TAG_subprogram attributes site:dwarfstd.org".

LLVM — llvm/lib/DebugInfo/DWARF/ is a reliable reference implementation:
DWARFDie.cpp (DIE and attribute access), DWARFUnit.cpp (compilation units),
DWARFDebugLine.cpp (line tables), DWARFVerifier.cpp (validation).

libdwarf — the reference C implementation at github.com/davea42/libdwarf-code.

Parsing and Searching with dwarfdump

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