XC16 not produce standard ELF or COFF files (Stampede)

Hi, coming from this thread http://www.microchip.com/forums/m969894.aspx , I found out that the XC16 doesn't produce any standard COFF or ELF files. The complier handbook states "The debugging format used for ELF object files is DWARF 2.0." "ELF: Executab..