Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] gdb: remove check for minimal symbols in 'start_command'

[Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>]

>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com> writes:

Kevin> The one thing that concerns me is the comment regarding the Ada language
Kevin> and the need to search for minimal symbols.  I'm going to give this patch
Kevin> an "Approved-by", but please wait a few days for others to weigh in
Kevin> regarding this concern.

In Ada programs, the name of the 'main' program is stored in an array.
gdb reads this from the inferior (normally from the section data by
setting trust_readonly=true) by looking up the minimal symbol.

See ada-lang.c:ada_main_name.

I'd guess this patch would just cause gdb to behave differently here:
rather than getting an error, you'd get a stop in the "C main", which is
some generated Ada procedure that the user won't recognize.

Anyway it hardly seems fatal.  Perhaps we need some better way to
communicate the Ada main for this target, not sure.

Tom