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Subject: Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb
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On 03 Jan 2013, at 21:53, David Edelsohn wrote:

> AIX still uses STABS.  GCC produces it and GDB consumes it.

More precisely, AIX uses Stabx. It's similar to Stabs, but different in qui=
te a few ways. To add to the confusion, GCC produces and GDB consumes a hyb=
rid of Stabs and Stabx on AIX for some reason (xlc and the native dbx produ=
ce/consume pure Stabx, which is not understood by GDB; conversely, dbx does=
 not understand the GCC/GDB Stabx-Stabs hybrid).


Jonas