stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb

[David Edelsohn]

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