stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb

Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
Fri Jan 4 04:12:00 GMT 2013


> 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.

-- 
Joel



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