The "stabs" representation of debugging information
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   This document describes the stabs debugging format.

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Overview

Overview of stabs

Program Structure

Encoding of the structure of the program

Constants

Constants

Variables

Types

Type definitions

Symbol Tables

Symbol information in symbol tables

Cplusplus

Stabs specific to C++

Stab Types

Symbol types in a.out files

Symbol Descriptors

Table of symbol descriptors

Type Descriptors

Table of type descriptors

Expanded Reference

Reference information by stab type

Questions

Questions and anomolies

Sun Differences

Differences between GNU stabs and Sun native stabs

Stab Sections

In some object file formats, stabs are in sections.

Symbol Types Index

Index of symbolic stab symbol type names.