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  16 <h2 class="chapter">Overview of Stabs</h2>
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  18    <p><dfn>Stabs</dfn> refers to a format for information that describes a program
  19 to a debugger.  This format was apparently invented by
  20 Peter Kessler at
  21 the University of California at Berkeley, for the <code>pdx</code> Pascal
  22 debugger; the format has spread widely since then.
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  24    <p>This document is one of the few published sources of documentation on
  25 stabs.  It is believed to be comprehensive for stabs used by C.  The
  26 lists of symbol descriptors (see <a href="Symbol-Descriptors.html#Symbol%20Descriptors">Symbol Descriptors</a>) and type
  27 descriptors (see <a href="Type-Descriptors.html#Type%20Descriptors">Type Descriptors</a>) are believed to be completely
  28 comprehensive.  Stabs for COBOL-specific features and for variant
  29 records (used by Pascal and Modula-2) are poorly documented here.
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  31    <p>Other sources of information on stabs are <cite>Dbx and Dbxtool
  32 Interfaces</cite>, 2nd edition, by Sun, 1988, and <cite>AIX Version 3.2 Files
  33 Reference</cite>, Fourth Edition, September 1992, "dbx Stabstring Grammar" in
  34 the a.out section, page 2-31.  This document is believed to incorporate
  35 the information from those two sources except where it explicitly directs
  36 you to them for more information.
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  39 <li><a accesskey="1" href="Flow.html#Flow">Flow</a>:                    Overview of debugging information flow
  40 <li><a accesskey="2" href="Stabs-Format.html#Stabs%20Format">Stabs Format</a>:          Overview of stab format
  41 <li><a accesskey="3" href="String-Field.html#String%20Field">String Field</a>:          The string field
  42 <li><a accesskey="4" href="C-Example.html#C%20Example">C Example</a>:                   A simple example in C source
  43 <li><a accesskey="5" href="Assembly-Code.html#Assembly%20Code">Assembly Code</a>:               The simple example at the assembly level
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