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The "stabs" representation of debugging information
1 Overview of Stabs
1.1 Overview of Debugging Information Flow
1.2 Overview of Stab Format
1.3 The String Field
1.4 A Simple Example in C Source
1.5 The Simple Example at the Assembly Level
2 Encoding the Structure of the Program
2.1 Main Program
2.2 Paths and Names of the Source Files
2.3 Names of Include Files
2.4 Line Numbers
2.5 Procedures
2.6 Nested Procedures
2.7 Block Structure
2.8 Alternate Entry Points
3 Constants
4 Variables
4.1 Automatic Variables Allocated on the Stack
4.2 Global Variables
4.3 Register Variables
4.4 Common Blocks
4.5 Static Variables
4.6 Fortran Based Variables
4.7 Parameters
4.7.1 Passing Parameters in Registers
4.7.2 Storing Parameters as Local Variables
4.7.3 Passing Parameters by Reference
4.7.4 Passing Conformant Array Parameters
5 Defining Types
5.1 Builtin Types
5.1.1 Traditional Builtin Types
5.1.1.1 Traditional Integer Types
5.1.1.2 Traditional Other Types
5.1.2 Defining Builtin Types Using Builtin Type Descriptors
5.1.3 Negative Type Numbers
5.2 Miscellaneous Types
5.3 Cross-References to Other Types
5.4 Subrange Types
5.5 Array Types
5.6 Strings
5.7 Enumerations
5.8 Structures
5.9 Giving a Type a Name
5.10 Unions
5.11 Function Types
6 Representation of #define and #undef
7 Symbol Information in Symbol Tables
7.1 Symbol Table Format
7.2 Transformations on Symbol Tables
7.2.1 Transformations on Static Variables
7.2.2 Transformations on Global Variables
7.2.3 Transformations of Stabs in separate sections
8 GNU C
++
Stabs
8.1 C
++
Class Names
8.2 Defining a Symbol Within Another Type
8.3 Basic Types For C
++
8.4 Simple Class Definition
8.5 Class Instance
8.6 Method Definition
8.7 The `
#
' Type Descriptor
8.8 The `
@
' Type Descriptor
8.9 Protections
8.10 Method Modifiers (
const
,
volatile
,
const volatile
)
8.11 Virtual Methods
8.12 Inheritance
8.13 Virtual Base Classes
8.14 Static Members
Appendix A Table of Stab Types
A.1 Non-Stab Symbol Types
A.2 Stab Symbol Types
Appendix B Table of Symbol Descriptors
Appendix C Table of Type Descriptors
Appendix D Expanded Reference by Stab Type
D.1 N_PC
D.2 N_NSYMS
D.3 N_NOMAP
D.4 N_M2C
D.5 N_BROWS
D.6 N_DEFD
D.7 N_EHDECL
D.8 N_MOD2
D.9 N_CATCH
D.10 N_SSYM
D.11 N_SCOPE
D.12 Non-base registers on Gould systems
D.13 N_LENG
Appendix E Questions and Anomalies
Appendix F Using Stabs in Their Own Sections
F.1 How to Embed Stabs in Sections
F.2 Having the Linker Relocate Stabs in ELF
Appendix G GNU Free Documentation License
G.1 ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
Symbol Types Index
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