> On Jul 26, 2019, at 4:42 AM, Pavel Labath via lldb-dev 
> <lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I recently found myself looking at ObjectFileMachO.cpp. I noticed that nearly 
> half of that file (2700 LOC) is taken up by the ParseSymtab function, and 
> that maybe one third of that is taken up by what appears to be STABS parsing 
> code.
> 
> Is anyone still using STABS debug info? If not, can we remove it?

STABS nlist entries are the way the linker leaves breadcrumbs to the debugger 
to find the objectifies containing debug info. I haven’t checked whether the 
code you see is this one, but it seems likely.

Fred

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