[Bug debug/47966] GCC 3.4.6 and 4.4.3 generate wrong stabs debugging information for static file scope variables explicitly initialized with 0.

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47966

--- Comment #8 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-03-03 
17:42:53 UTC ---
IIRC a.out format support for freebsd has just been depercated.  Why use stabs
at all?  Elf and dwarf2 have been around for at least 10 years now and actually
make sense for 90% of the world; doesn't it make sense to update to using elf? 
Somethings will never work in a.out (or a.outb).