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Re: stabs and #define/#undef
> Nor did anyone else attempt to keep it in sync, but as Sun were the
> original creators of the format, and the only ones I know of to enhance
> it to the extreme degree they did, I think they have a certain claim to
> authority here. In a perfect world I'd try to pick numbers that didn't
> conflict with their copy.
My memory agrees with both of those points, but I also think that Sun never
published the extensions in a timely-enough manner, so that there was
indeed significant reverse-engineering going on and there may well have been
incompatibilities introduced in that process.
I think the resulting mess is such that I would be very hesitant to refer to
*any* stabs documention as "definitive".