Debug formats on Linux

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 20001028111319.6209534D81@nile.gnat.com >you write:
  > <<> I suspect that every new GCC platform will use DWARF2.  (I think that
  > > IA64-Linux uses it.)
  > >>
  > 
  > One would hope that Stabs will still be usable on most platforms, since
  > this representation is so much more space efficient than DWARF2. 
That's not necessarily true.

For example on PA64 dwarf2 is more compact than stabs would be for
most applications.  There are of course exceptions.

jeff