On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:20 PM, David Edelsohn <dje....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobec...@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