Using as - Stab Go to the previous , next section. This is the symbol's name. Some debuggers used to code arbitrarily complex structures into symbol names using this field. type An absolute expression. The symbol's type is set to the low 8 bits of this expression.
Any bit pattern is permitted, but ld and debuggers choke on silly bit patterns.
An absolute expression. The symbol's descriptor is set to the low 16 bits of this expression. An absolute expression which becomes the symbol's value. It is a null pointer, for compatibility. Older assemblers used a null pointer so they didn't waste space in object files with empty strings.