[lldb-dev] STABS

[Frédéric Riss via lldb-dev]

> On Jul 26, 2019, at 4:42 AM, Pavel Labath via lldb-dev <lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I recently found myself looking at ObjectFileMachO.cpp. I noticed that nearly half of that file (2700 LOC) is taken up by the ParseSymtab function, and that maybe one third of that is taken up by what appears to be STABS parsing code.
> 
> Is anyone still using STABS debug info? If not, can we remove it?

STABS nlist entries are the way the linker leaves breadcrumbs to the debugger to find the objectifies containing debug info. I haven’t checked whether the code you see is this one, but it seems likely.

Fred