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Re: Problems while debugging fortran
- From: Carlos Eduardo Seo <cseo at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, Carlos Eduardo Seo <cseo at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:16:16 -0200
- Subject: Re: Problems while debugging fortran
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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 12:33:36PM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Question to the other GDB contributors/maintainers: Is it going to
>> hurt GDB if we fallback to using "DW_AT_calling_convention =
>> DW_CC_program" to find the main? The DWARF3 manual says that this
>> attribute value was <<intended to support Fortran main programs>>.
>> This is very unclear, since they don't explain what "support"
>> refers to. But for people stuck with XLF, if we can improve their
>> lives without hurting the rest of GDB, I'm ok with compromising and
>> using this attribute value be used to find the main.
>
> Yes, this does seem sensible.
>
Great, I can come up with a patch shortly.
Regards,
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Carlos Eduardo Seo
Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center
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