From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
Waldek Hebisch <hebisch@math.uni.wroc.pl>,
Pierre Muller <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org, gpc@gnu.de
Subject: Re: [RFC] Handle GPC specific name for main function
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hclflwgk.fsf@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1190913417.25072.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Thiago Jung Bauermann's message of "Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:16:57 -0300")
Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com> writes:
> 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.
The DWARF committee discussed adding a tag to do this, but it got
bogged down in questions about what to do in cases like Java and Ada
and COBOL, and how to phrase the definition to mean the right thing in
all those cases. If the DWARF web site is up to date, the proposal
got sent back for revision.
http://dwarfstd.org/ShowIssue.php?issue=070619.1&type=open
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-26 14:40 Pierre Muller
2007-09-26 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-26 15:32 ` Pierre Muller
2007-09-26 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-26 17:58 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-09-26 19:39 ` Pierre Muller
2007-09-26 19:50 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-09-26 22:06 ` Pierre Muller
2007-09-26 22:39 ` [RFC-2] " Pierre Muller
2007-09-27 6:03 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-09-27 7:29 ` [RFC-3] " Pierre Muller
[not found] ` <46FB5E2C.6080606@microbizz.nl>
[not found] ` <46FB5F76.9050501@microbizz.nl>
2007-09-27 7:57 ` Pierre Muller
2007-09-27 12:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-09-27 12:35 ` Pierre Muller
2007-09-27 12:40 ` 'Daniel Jacobowitz'
2007-09-27 16:20 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-09-27 16:32 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-09-27 21:36 ` Pierre Muller
2007-09-28 18:31 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-09-27 8:02 ` Pierre Muller
2007-09-27 13:01 ` Waldek Hebisch
2007-09-27 7:20 ` [RFC-2] " Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-27 1:58 ` [RFC] " Waldek Hebisch
2007-09-27 5:52 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-09-27 17:17 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-09-27 19:50 ` Jim Blandy [this message]
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