From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27550 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2006 17:22:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 27541 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Feb 2006 17:22:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:22:58 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1FBEkG-00059Y-7g; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:22:44 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:22:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Wu Zhou Cc: Jason Merrill , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, pinskia@gcc.gnu.org, dberlin@dberlin.org, jimb@red-bean.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Use DW_CC_program to indicate Fortran main subroutine Message-ID: <20060220172244.GC19356@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Wu Zhou , Jason Merrill , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, pinskia@gcc.gnu.org, dberlin@dberlin.org, jimb@red-bean.com References: <20051121051017.GA12030@nevyn.them.org> <4381F707.5080703@redhat.com> <20051121163733.GA23783@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00370.txt.bz2 On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:34:01AM +0800, Wu Zhou wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you all for your kind input. I had a look at all your comments. It > seems that no one is 100% convinced that DW_CC_program is the proper > solution. In fact I am also a little odd about the usage of DW_CC_program > to indicate the main function. But the text in DWARF 3.3.1 really induce > me to think that it is currently the only feasible solution. > > Now that most of you concur to make up a new attribute or tag for this. I > think it is more correct too. Maybe it is time for us to discuss the > detail of this new tag or attribute? > > My vote is to use a new attribute Dan Berlin proposed: DW_AT_GNU_main. We > can use it in GNU toolchain first, gcc, gdb, binutils and so on. If the > DWARF committee can reach agreement on the final name, we can switch to > it then. What is your point on this? Thanks. Since we had this conversation DWARF-3 was published; did you want to reopen this with the DWARF working group? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery