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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>When stabs was created in the 1980s, the dominant <a href="/facts/Object_file/sFBvosE4">object file</a> format was <a href="/facts/A.out/Q6Um95j8">a.out</a>, which (unlike more recent formats such as <a href="/facts/Executable_and_Linkable_Format/ro2CYqso">ELF</a>) makes no provision for storing debugging information. Stabs works around this problem by encoding the information using special entries in the <a href="/facts/Symbol_table/ILc0WE9u">symbol table</a>. </p><p>At one stage stabs was widely used on <a href="/facts/Unix/0pNL2seI">Unix</a> systems, but the newer <a href="/facts/DWARF/dRRIGNKS">DWARF</a> format has largely supplanted it. </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/stabs.html">STABS</a> <a href="/facts/GNU_Debugger/nTs958uC">GNU Debugger</a> project documentation</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Menapace, Julia; Kingdon, Jim; MacKenzie, David (1993). "Overview of Stabs". The "stabs" Debug Format. Cygnus Support. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.38.1857. Retrieved 2018-01-21. <a href="https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/stabs/Overview.html" target="_blank">https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/stabs/Overview.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Kessler, Peter B. (November 21, 2014). "RFR: 8065656: Use DWARF debug symbols for Solaris". build-dev (Mailing list). Retrieved 2018-01-21. <a href="http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2014-November/013726.html" target="_blank">http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2014-November/013726.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Linton, Mark A. (1990). "The Evolution of Dbx" (PDF). USENIX Summer. USENIX Summer 1990 Technical Conference. pp. 211–220. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.38.5985. S2CID 15074926. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-23. Retrieved 2018-01-21. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180123131612/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/95dd/42a7390e62f46e2779023ae77191e461a436.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20180123131612/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/95dd/42a7390e62f46e2779023ae77191e461a436.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>