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Re: Backtrace of naked functions



>
>> Because we use the stabs debugging format, we could simply link in
>> a module which defines a 'main stab'. gdb honors this stab type, and
>> treats the name given with this stab like 'main'. In particular,
>> backtraces stop at this function.
>
>This sounds very promising! Do you set the stab type somewhere on 
>assembly level or is there a nifty GCC __attribute__(()) thingy?
>

I simply created a small assembler module, the line

.stabs "myentry",42,0,0,0

designates "myentry" as 'main function'. 42 is the Stab type N_MAIN.

This may also work with inline assembly, but I didn't try.

Regards
D.Ruppert
ePS&RTS GmbH
dieter_ruppert@siemens.com


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