CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For other uses, see Dwarf (disambiguation) . DWARF is a widely used, standardized debugging data format . DWARF was originally designed along with Executable and Linkable Format (ELF), although it is independent of object file formats. [ 1 ] The name is a medieval fantasy complement to "ELF" that has no official meaning, although the backronym 'Debugging With Attributed Record Formats' was later proposed. [ 1 ] 1 History 2 Structure 3 Further reading 4 See also 5 References 6 External links History [ edit ] The first version of DWARF proved to use excessive amounts of storage, and an incompatible successor, DWARF-2, superseded it and added various encoding schemes to reduce data size. DWARF did not immediately gain universal acceptance; for instance, when Sun Microsystems ad...