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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:47:00 -0000
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [i386/stabs] Arguments of main on gcc >= 4.1
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:25:40AM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > E.g.:
> >     int main (int argc, char **argv, char **envp);
> > 
> > notice the 0, 4, 8:
> > 
> >           .zero   16
> >           .text
> >           .stabs  "main:F(0,1)",36,0,10,main
> >           .stabs  "argc:p(0,1)",160,0,9,0
> >           .stabs  "argv:p(0,16)=*(3,54)",160,0,9,4
> >           .stabs  "envp:p(0,16)",160,0,9,8
> > .globl main
> >           .type   main, @function
> 
> Looking at your example above, what would work is if GCC was using
> N_LSYM (128) symbols instead of N_PSYM symbols (160).

If it did that, they wouldn't be treated as arguments any more, just
as local variables.  I think.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery