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Re: debug/2714: Stabs truncated on AIX
- To: dje at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: debug/2714: Stabs truncated on AIX
- From: James Cownie <jcownie at etnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 16:08:01 -0400
- CC: chan1 at llnl dot gov, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-prs at gcc dot gnu dot org, nobody at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Etnus LLC
- References: <20010810222035.19493.qmail@sourceware.cygnus.com>
dje@gcc.gnu.org wrote:
>
> AIX assembly language does not have a line continuation
> character. Neither "?" nor " ?" before a newline or on the
> next line continues the string. All variants produce syntax
> errors from the AIX Assembler. The continuation character
> is not documented in the AIX Assembler manual nor mentioned
> in the AIX Assembler source code. Is this a GNU Assembler
> feature? From where does your recommendation of a "?"
> continuation character derive?
I know nothing about AIX assembly language, but as a
consumer of the STABS I can tell you that AIX compilers
generate a '?' character as the last character of a stab
string which is to be conitnued.
This is doubtless documented in the AIX stabs manual somewhere.
James Cownie
jcownie@etnus.com
Etnus, Inc.
Phone +44 117 9071438