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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
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Subject: Re: Double ';' problem in stabs
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> Questions:
> 1. Is it anywhere documented that the last ';' (the second one) should
> be present?
> 2. If not, is it a bug (the assumption that last ';' should
> be persent) in Gdb, which requires a fix?
> 3. In case a fix is required what will be the long term strategy?


I'd treat it as a GDB bug - even if someone could find a spec indicating 
that Sun's compiler is producing bad STABS, GDB should still be handling 
them.  Could I suggest at least filing a bug report at 
http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/bugs/

enjoy,
Andrew