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  64. <h3 class="section">7.86 <code>.stabd, .stabn, .stabs</code></h3>
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  66. <a name="index-stabx-directives"></a>
  67. <p>There are three directives that begin &lsquo;<samp>.stab</samp>&rsquo;.
  68. All emit symbols (see <a href="Symbols.html#Symbols">Symbols</a>), for use by symbolic debuggers.
  69. The symbols are not entered in the <code>as</code> hash table: they
  70. cannot be referenced elsewhere in the source file.
  71. Up to five fields are required:
  72. </p>
  73. <dl compact="compact">
  74. <dt><var>string</var></dt>
  75. <dd><p>This is the symbol&rsquo;s name. It may contain any character except
  76. &lsquo;<samp>\000</samp>&rsquo;, so is more general than ordinary symbol names. Some
  77. debuggers used to code arbitrarily complex structures into symbol names
  78. using this field.
  79. </p>
  80. </dd>
  81. <dt><var>type</var></dt>
  82. <dd><p>An absolute expression. The symbol&rsquo;s type is set to the low 8 bits of
  83. this expression. Any bit pattern is permitted, but <code>ld</code>
  84. and debuggers choke on silly bit patterns.
  85. </p>
  86. </dd>
  87. <dt><var>other</var></dt>
  88. <dd><p>An absolute expression. The symbol&rsquo;s &ldquo;other&rdquo; attribute is set to the
  89. low 8 bits of this expression.
  90. </p>
  91. </dd>
  92. <dt><var>desc</var></dt>
  93. <dd><p>An absolute expression. The symbol&rsquo;s descriptor is set to the low 16
  94. bits of this expression.
  95. </p>
  96. </dd>
  97. <dt><var>value</var></dt>
  98. <dd><p>An absolute expression which becomes the symbol&rsquo;s value.
  99. </p></dd>
  100. </dl>
  101. <p>If a warning is detected while reading a <code>.stabd</code>, <code>.stabn</code>,
  102. or <code>.stabs</code> statement, the symbol has probably already been created;
  103. you get a half-formed symbol in your object file. This is
  104. compatible with earlier assemblers!
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  107. <dd><a name="index-stabd-directive"></a>
  108. </dd>
  109. <dt><code>.stabd <var>type</var> , <var>other</var> , <var>desc</var></code></dt>
  110. <dd>
  111. <p>The &ldquo;name&rdquo; of the symbol generated is not even an empty string.
  112. It is a null pointer, for compatibility. Older assemblers used a
  113. null pointer so they didn&rsquo;t waste space in object files with empty
  114. strings.
  115. </p>
  116. <p>The symbol&rsquo;s value is set to the location counter,
  117. relocatably. When your program is linked, the value of this symbol
  118. is the address of the location counter when the <code>.stabd</code> was
  119. assembled.
  120. </p>
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  122. </dd>
  123. <dt><code>.stabn <var>type</var> , <var>other</var> , <var>desc</var> , <var>value</var></code></dt>
  124. <dd><p>The name of the symbol is set to the empty string <code>&quot;&quot;</code>.
  125. </p>
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  127. </dd>
  128. <dt><code>.stabs <var>string</var> , <var>type</var> , <var>other</var> , <var>desc</var> , <var>value</var></code></dt>
  129. <dd><p>All five fields are specified.
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