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Subject: Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb
From: David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, David Taylor <dtaylor@emc.com>, binutils@sourceware.org, 	gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org
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On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:20 PM, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Can you please clarify what "GNU ld is not completely usable" means?
> Is that referring to DWARF support? to compatibility with specific AIX
> releases? to compatibility with AIX DWARF feature?

Sorry, I meant what "GNU ld is now completely usable" means because I
believe that it actually is NOT completely usable on AIX.

Thanks, David