10.3.4.9 Debugging Information Sections

The section map concludes with several sections that contain information related to debugging in MPLAB X IDE. Although these sections become part of the linked application, they are not actually loaded into device memory.

  /*
  ** ========== Debug Info ==============
  */

  .comment        0 : { *(.comment) }

  /*
  ** DWARF-2
  */
  .debug_info     0 : { *(.debug_info) *(.gnu.linkonce.wi.*) }
  .debug_abbrev   0 : { *(.debug_abbrev) }
  .debug_line     0 : { *(.debug_line) }
  .debug_frame    0 : { *(.debug_frame) }
  .debug_str      0 : { *(.debug_str) }
  .debug_loc      0 : { *(.debug_loc) }
  .debug_macinfo  0 : { *(.debug_macinfo) }
  .debug_pubnames 0 : { *(.debug_pubnames) }
  .debug_ranges   0 : { *(.debug_ranges) }
  .debug_aranges  0 : { *(.debug_aranges) }