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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, David Taylor <dtaylor@emc.com>,	binutils@sourceware.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb
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> AIX still uses STABS.  GCC produces it and GDB consumes it.
> 
> Recent releases of AIX now support DWARF as well, but GCC and GDB have
> not been converted to use it on AIX.

Note that GNU ld is now completely usable; and one of the side
effects of using GNU ld is the ability to switch over to DWARF,
even on older versions such as AIX 5.1.

-- 
Joel