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- <h3 class="section">4.5 Static Variables</h3>
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- <p>Initialized static variables are represented by the ‘<samp>S</samp>’ and
- ‘<samp>V</samp>’ symbol descriptors. ‘<samp>S</samp>’ means file scope static, and
- ‘<samp>V</samp>’ means procedure scope static. One exception: in XCOFF, IBM’s
- xlc compiler always uses ‘<samp>V</samp>’, and whether it is file scope or not
- is distinguished by whether the stab is located within a function.
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- <p>In a.out files, <code>N_STSYM</code> means the data section, <code>N_FUN</code>
- means the text section, and <code>N_LCSYM</code> means the bss section. For
- those systems with a read-only data section separate from the text
- section (Solaris), <code>N_ROSYM</code> means the read-only data section.
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- <p>For example, the source lines:
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- <pre class="example">static const int var_const = 5;
- static int var_init = 2;
- static int var_noinit;
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- <p>yield the following stabs:
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- <pre class="example">.stabs "var_const:S1",36,0,0,_var_const # <span class="roman">36 is N_FUN</span>
- …
- .stabs "var_init:S1",38,0,0,_var_init # <span class="roman">38 is N_STSYM</span>
- …
- .stabs "var_noinit:S1",40,0,0,_var_noinit # <span class="roman">40 is N_LCSYM</span>
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- <p>In XCOFF files, the stab type need not indicate the section;
- <code>C_STSYM</code> can be used for all statics. Also, each static variable
- is enclosed in a static block. A <code>C_BSTAT</code> (emitted with a
- ‘<samp>.bs</samp>’ assembler directive) symbol begins the static block; its
- value is the symbol number of the csect symbol whose value is the
- address of the static block, its section is the section of the variables
- in that static block, and its name is ‘<samp>.bs</samp>’. A <code>C_ESTAT</code>
- (emitted with a ‘<samp>.es</samp>’ assembler directive) symbol ends the static
- block; its name is ‘<samp>.es</samp>’ and its value and section are ignored.
- </p>
- <p>In ECOFF files, the storage class is used to specify the section, so the
- stab type need not indicate the section.
- </p>
- <p>In ELF files, for the SunPRO compiler version 2.0.1, symbol descriptor
- ‘<samp>S</samp>’ means that the address is absolute (the linker relocates it)
- and symbol descriptor ‘<samp>V</samp>’ means that the address is relative to the
- start of the relevant section for that compilation unit. SunPRO has
- plans to have the linker stop relocating stabs; I suspect that their the
- debugger gets the address from the corresponding ELF (not stab) symbol.
- I’m not sure how to find which symbol of that name is the right one.
- The clean way to do all this would be to have the value of a symbol
- descriptor ‘<samp>S</samp>’ symbol be an offset relative to the start of the
- file, just like everything else, but that introduces obvious
- compatibility problems. For more information on linker stab relocation,
- See <a href="ELF-Linker-Relocation.html#ELF-Linker-Relocation">ELF Linker Relocation</a>.
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