debug/2714: Stabs truncated on AIX

[James Cownie]

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
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