<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Contributed by Cygnus Support. Written by Julia Menapace, Jim Kingdon, and David MacKenzie. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.4, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <title>C Example (STABS)</title> <meta name="description" content="C Example (STABS)"> <meta name="keywords" content="C Example (STABS)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Symbol-Types-Index.html#Symbol-Types-Index" rel="index" title="Symbol Types Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Overview.html#Overview" rel="up" title="Overview"> <link href="Assembly-Code.html#Assembly-Code" rel="next" title="Assembly Code"> <link href="String-Field.html#String-Field" rel="prev" title="String Field"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} blockquote.smallindentedblock {margin-right: 0em; font-size: smaller} blockquote.smallquotation {font-size: smaller} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalldisplay {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smallexample {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalllisp {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} pre.smalldisplay {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smallexample {font-size: smaller} pre.smallformat {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smalllisp {font-size: smaller} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <a name="C-Example"></a> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Assembly-Code.html#Assembly-Code" accesskey="n" rel="next">Assembly Code</a>, Previous: <a href="String-Field.html#String-Field" accesskey="p" rel="prev">String Field</a>, Up: <a href="Overview.html#Overview" accesskey="u" rel="up">Overview</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Symbol-Types-Index.html#Symbol-Types-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <a name="A-Simple-Example-in-C-Source"></a> <h3 class="section">1.4 A Simple Example in C Source</h3> <p>To get the flavor of how stabs describe source information for a C program, let’s look at the simple program: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">main() { printf("Hello world"); } </pre></div> <p>When compiled with ‘<samp>-g</samp>’, the program above yields the following <samp>.s</samp> file. Line numbers have been added to make it easier to refer to parts of the <samp>.s</samp> file in the description of the stabs that follows. </p> </body> </html>