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The "stabs" representation of debugging information

This document describes the stabs debugging format.

• Overview: Overview of stabs
• Program Structure: Encoding of the structure of the program
• Constants: Constants
• Variables
• Types: Type definitions
• Macro define and undefine: Representation of #define and #undef
• 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 anomalies
• Stab Sections: In some object file formats, stabs are in sections.
• GNU Free Documentation License: The license for this documentation
• Symbol Types Index: Index of symbolic stab symbol type names.