@setchapternewpage odd
@settitle STABS
+@c man begin INCLUDE
+@include gdb-cfg.texi
+@c man end
+
@c @finalout
@c This is a dir.info fragment to support semi-automated addition of
@end direntry
@copying
-Copyright @copyright{} 1992-1995, 1997-1998, 2000-2007, 2009-2012 Free
-Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Contributed by Cygnus Support. Written by Julia Menapace, Jim Kingdon,
and David MacKenzie.
* Questions:: Questions and anomalies
* Stab Sections:: In some object file formats, stabs are
in sections.
-* Symbol Types Index:: Index of symbolic stab symbol type names.
* GNU Free Documentation License:: The license for this documentation
+* Symbol Types Index:: Index of symbolic stab symbol type names.
@end menu
@end ifnottex
@appendixsec Having the Linker Relocate Stabs in ELF
This section describes some Sun hacks for Stabs in ELF; it does not
-apply to COFF or SOM.
+apply to COFF or SOM. While @value{GDBN} no longer supports this hack
+for Sun Stabs in ELF, this section is kept to document the issue.
To keep linking fast, you don't want the linker to have to relocate very
many stabs. Making sure this is done for @code{N_SLINE},
Finding the correct @code{Bbss.bss}, etc., symbol is difficult, because
the linker simply concatenates the @code{.stab} sections from each
@file{.o} file without including any information about which part of a
-@code{.stab} section comes from which @file{.o} file. The way GDB does
-this is to look for an ELF @code{STT_FILE} symbol which has the same
+@code{.stab} section comes from which @file{.o} file. The way GDB use to
+do this is to look for an ELF @code{STT_FILE} symbol which has the same
name as the last component of the file name from the @code{N_SO} symbol
in the stabs (for example, if the file name is @file{../../gdb/main.c},
it looks for an ELF @code{STT_FILE} symbol named @code{main.c}). This