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authorJim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com>1994-01-25 17:42:20 +0000
committerJim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com>1994-01-25 17:42:20 +0000
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* stabs.texinfo (String Field): Discuss continuing stabs with ?.
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@@ -282,7 +282,9 @@ except the string field. The string field of every stab except the last
is marked as continued with a backslash at the end (in the assembly code
this may be written as a double backslash, depending on the assembler).
Removing the backslashes and concatenating the string fields of each
-stab produces the original, long string.
+stab produces the original, long string. Just to be incompatible (or so
+they don't have to worry about what the assembler does with
+backslashes), AIX can use @samp{?} instead of backslash.
@node C Example
@section A Simple Example in C Source