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Re: [RFC] Handle GPC specific name for main function

From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman at br dot ibm dot com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
Cc: Waldek Hebisch <hebisch at math dot uni dot wroc dot pl>, Pierre Muller <muller at ics dot u-strasbg dot fr>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, gpc at gnu dot de
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:16:57 -0300
Subject: Re: [RFC] Handle GPC specific name for main function
References: <003901c8004b$2f9a55d0$8ecf0170$@u-strasbg.fr> <E1Iaie4-0004Wd-00@hera.math.uni.wroc.pl> <20070927055228.GA3787@adacore.com>

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 22:52 -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> It looks like we're reaching the same conclusion as before, which is
> that, unless GPC gets changed to emit a specific symbol to specify
> that the main is in pascal, the strongest approach is to rely on
> DWARF data. 
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb-patches/2005-11/msg00380.html

Unfortunately, from the discussion above there is no adequate DWARF tag
to specify which is the main program. Like Dan Berlin suggested, it is
necessary to come up with a new one and make the compilers (gpc and
gfortran) emit those.
-- 
[]'s
Thiago Jung Bauermann
Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center

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