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69<h2 class="chapter">4 Variables</h2>
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71<p>Different types of stabs describe the various ways that variables can be
72allocated: on the stack, globally, in registers, in common blocks,
73statically, or as arguments to a function.
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82<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Common-Blocks.html#Common-Blocks" accesskey="4">Common Blocks</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Variables statically allocated together.
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