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<h2 class="chapter">4 Variables</h2>
<p>Different types of stabs describe the various ways that variables can be
allocated: on the stack, globally, in registers, in common blocks,
statically, or as arguments to a function.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Global-Variables.html#Global-Variables" accesskey="2">Global Variables</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Variables used by more than one source file.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Register-Variables.html#Register-Variables" accesskey="3">Register Variables</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Variables in registers.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Common-Blocks.html#Common-Blocks" accesskey="4">Common Blocks</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Variables statically allocated together.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Based-Variables.html#Based-Variables" accesskey="6">Based Variables</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Fortran pointer based variables.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Parameters.html#Parameters" accesskey="7">Parameters</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Variables for arguments to functions.
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