> 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