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Re: [RFC] Handle GPC specific name for main function
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.
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Thiago Jung Bauermann
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IBM Linux Technology Center