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 1 Overview of Stabs
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 "Stabs" refers to a format for information that describes a program to
 a debugger.  This format was apparently invented by Peter Kessler at
 the University of California at Berkeley, for the `pdx' Pascal
 debugger; the format has spread widely since then.
 
    This document is one of the few published sources of documentation on
 stabs.  It is believed to be comprehensive for stabs used by C.  The
 lists of symbol descriptors ( Symbol Descriptors) and type
 descriptors ( Type Descriptors) are believed to be completely
 comprehensive.  Stabs for COBOL-specific features and for variant
 records (used by Pascal and Modula-2) are poorly documented here.
 
    Other sources of information on stabs are `Dbx and Dbxtool
 Interfaces', 2nd edition, by Sun, 1988, and `AIX Version 3.2 Files
 Reference', Fourth Edition, September 1992, "dbx Stabstring Grammar" in
 the a.out section, page 2-31.  This document is believed to incorporate
 the information from those two sources except where it explicitly
 directs you to them for more information.

 
* Flow                        Overview of debugging information flow
* Stabs Format                Overview of stab format
* String Field                The string field
* C Example                   A simple example in C source
* Assembly Code               The simple example at the assembly level

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