Debugging data on Alpha

[Richard Kenner]

    Any chance you could install gnu as for a moment so that you
    could avoid using mips-tfile?  With that you should be looking
    at practically the same code paths I am on alpha-linux.
    
I could, but it strikes me as very unlikely.  If mips-tfile malfunctioned,
I'd expect it to either copy no data or omit data randomly.  Missing just
variables from nested scopes sounds much more like a problem in stabs
generation to me, and David's comment adds weight to that.