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Re: GCC symbol table info

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From: Kevin Rodgers
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 18:30
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In article <733183146@bedbug.cs.duke.edu> dy@duke.cs.duke.edu (Doreen Yen) writes:
>	I have the O'Reilly book, Understanding and Using COFF.
>It is very nice, but is there a similar resource for understanding
>the format of Sparc assembler pseudo-ops, especially .stabs ???
>in the form they are output during gcc -gstabs ???
>
>	For example for an integer variable x, one obtains
>.stabs "x:1",128,0,0,-20
>
>where the -20 seems to be the offset from the frame pointer.
>Can somebody explain what the other fields mean?

I'm not at all familiar with debugging formats, but I noticed that gdb
4.8 comes with a manual (in texinfo format, in gdb/doc) on stabs.
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