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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Ivan Popivanov <popivan@gmx.net>
Cc: Wu Zhou <woodzltc@cn.ibm.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: AIX support
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> Aren't the executable file formats different on AIX and Linux? Does GDB 
> support both?

Yes, the executable formats are different. One is COFF based, and the
other is ELF. GDB supports both. (I assume by linux you mean ppc-linux)

-- 
Joel