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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 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?

Thanks, David