Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!snorkelwacker!spdcc!esegue!compilers-sender From: bimandre@BLEKUL60.BITNET (Andre Marien) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: '.stabs' info requested Keywords: C, debug Message-ID: <1990Jun5.173819.2970@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> Date: 5 Jun 90 17:38:19 GMT Sender: compilers-sender@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us Reply-To: Andre Marien Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 21 Approved: compilers@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us Compilers on Sun, Sequent, VAX generate symbolic info in their '.s' files when compiling with '-g -S'. This allows to figure out what should go in there, but not what may be possible besides what the compilers currently use. On DECstations they 'forget' to do so, eliminating this possiblity. This would not be a problem if somewhere in the docu of these systems there was a description of the format. Only in the stabs.h and a.out one can find something, but not half of the info one needs. The question : where do I find this info in the docu ? If the answer is 'nowhere', has somebody the info for suns, decs, ... ? Thanks a lot, Andre' Marien email : bimandre@cs.kuleuven.ac.be or email : bimandre@blekul60 [The AT&T System V.3.2 programmer's guide which is published by Prentice Hall does a credible job of explaining the mysteries of the synbol table, though not the assembler syntax to generate it. -John] -- Send compilers articles to compilers@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us {spdcc | ima | lotus}!esegue. Meta-mail to compilers-request@esegue. Please send responses to the author of the message, not the poster.