Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb

Jonas Maebe
2013-01-03T21:53:48Z

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 quite a few ways. To add to the confusion, GCC produces and GDB consumes a hybrid of Stabs and Stabx on AIX for some reason (xlc and the native dbx produce/consume pure Stabx, which is not understood by GDB; conversely, dbx does not understand the GCC/GDB Stabx-Stabs hybrid).

Jonas