8.21.3 Directives for debugging information
mips ecoff as
supports several directives used for generating debugging information which are not support by traditional mips assemblers. These are .def
, .endef
, .dim
, .file
, .scl
, .size
, .tag
, .type
, .val
, .stabd
, .stabn
, and .stabs
. The debugging information generated by the three .stab
directives can only be read by gdb, not by traditional mips debuggers (this enhancement is required to fully support C++ debugging). These directives are primarily used by compilers, not assembly language programmers!