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GDB Internals

6.5.1 stabs

stabs started out as special symbols within the a.out format. Since then, it has been encapsulated into other file formats, such as COFF and ELF.

While `dbxread.c' does some of the basic stab processing, including for encapsulated versions, `stabsread.c' does the real work.