The "stabs" debug format

• Overview of stabs
  • Overview of debugging information flow
  • Overview of stab format
  • A simple example in C source
  • The simple example at the assembly level
• Encoding for the structure of the program
  • The path and name of the source file
  • Line Numbers
  • Procedures
  • Block Structure
• Simple types
  • Basic type definitions
  • Range types defined by min and max value
  • Range type defined by number of bits
• A Comprehensive Example in C
  • Flow of control and nested scopes
• Variables
  • Locally scoped automatic variables
  • Global Variables
  • Global register variables
  • Initialized static variables
  • Un-initialized static variables
  • Parameters
• Aggregate Types
  • Array types
  • Enumerations
  • Structure Tags
  • Typedefs
  • Unions
  • Function types
• Symbol information in symbol tables
• GNU C++ stabs
  • Symbol descriptors added for C++ descriptions:
  • type descriptors added for C++ descriptions
  • Basic types for C++
  • Simple class definition
  • Class instance
  • Method defintion
  • Protections
  • Method Modifiers (const, volatile, const volatile)
  • Virtual Methods
  • Inheritence
  • Virtual Base Classes
  • Static Members
• Example2.c - source code for extended example
• Example2.s - assembly code for extended example
• Quick reference
  • Table A: Symbol types from stabs
  • Table B: Symbol types from assembler and linker
  • Table C: Symbol descriptors
  • Table D: Type Descriptors
• Expanded reference by stab type.
  • 32 - 0x20 - N_GYSM
  • 34 - 0x22 - N_FNAME
  • 36 - 0x24 - N_FUN
  • 38 - 0x26 - N_STSYM
  • 40 - 0x28 - N_LCSYM
  • 42 - 0x2a - N_MAIN
  • 48 - 0x30 - N_PC
  • 50 - 0x32 - N_NSYMS
  • 52 - 0x34 - N_NOMAP
  • 64 - 0x40 - N_RSYM
  • 66 - 0x42 - N_M2C
  • 68 - 0x44 - N_SLINE
  • 70 - 0x46 - N_DSLINE
  • 72 - 0x48 - N_BSLINE
  • 72 - 0x48 - N_BROWS
  • 74 - 0x4a - N_DEFD
  • 80 - 0x50 - N_EHDECL
  • 80 - 0x50 - N_MOD2
  • 84 - 0x54 - N_CATCH
  • 96 - 0x60 - N_SSYM
  • 100 - 0x64 - N_SO
  • 128 - 0x80 - N_LSYM
  • 130 - 0x82 - N_BINCL
  • 132 - 0x84 - N_SOL
  • 160 - 0xa0 - N_PSYM
  • 162 - 0xa2 - N_EINCL
  • 164 - 0xa4 - N_ENTRY
  • 192 - 0xc0 - N_LBRAC
  • 194 - 0xc2 - N_EXCL
  • 196 - 0xc4 - N_SCOPE
  • 224 - 0xe0 - N_RBRAC
  • 226 - 0xe2 - N_BCOMM
  • 228 - 0xe4 - N_ECOMM
  • 232 - 0xe8 - N_ECOML
  • Non-base registers on Gould systems
  • - 0xfe - N_LENG
• Questions and anomalies
• Differences between GNU stabs in a.out and GNU stabs in xcoff
• Differences between GNU stabs and Sun native stabs.

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