Possible stabs bugs

[Stan Shebs]

alstevens@midifitz.com (Al Stevens) writes:

> 2. The linker is not resolving the addresses of global variables (N_GSYM) in
> the stab as previous versions of gnu-win32 do. The egcs 1.1 linker leaves
> the stab's value field zero and places no other symbolic infomation in the
> exe file that (as far as I can tell) provides the variable's memory address.

Interesting, but what is an "egcs 1.1 linker"?

> 3. The stabs format has changed considerably since the 1993 FSF spec by
> Menapace, Kingdon, and MacKenzie. Can you direct me to a more recent
> specification document?

Changed?  In what way?  We update the stabs document as changes occur,
but they've been very infrequent.  I'd certainly like to hear about
any undocumented changes.

							Stan Shebs
							Cygnus Solutions
							shebs@cygnus.com