From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 08:41:14 +0000 From: Michael Joosten Message-ID: <397CB3F8.41C6@c-lab.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200007221537.LAA00818@cse.psu.edu>, <200007221733.KAA88238@ducky.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] software ports Topicbox-Message-UUID: ea296b32-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Mike Haertel wrote: > > there. Anyway the stabs format has probably evolved somewhat since > the 4.3bsd man page was written, moreover I think gdb has its own > slightly idiosyncratic variation that fixes some problems with the > original dbx format. So if you want a well-documented format you're > probably better off with DWARF. There was a stabs.texinfo either in GDB or in GCC some time... And, SunSoft has also a separate document as part of their SunWork development suite (compilers, dbx, dbxtool ,etc) documenting 'their' extensions to plain BSD stabs. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Michael Joosten | Tel. : (+49) (+) 5251-60-6127 | | C-LAB | Fax : (+49) (+) 5251-60-6065 | | Fuerstenalle 11 | E-Mail: joost@c-lab.de | | 33094 Paderborn | C-LAB is a cooperation between | | Germany | University Paderborn & SIEMENS AG | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~