-----Original Message----- From: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-patches- owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Jacobowitz Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 2:11 PM To: Pierre Muller Cc: 'Adriaan van Os'; gpc@gnu.de; gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC-3] Handle GPC specific name for main function

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:57:41AM +0200, Pierre Muller wrote:

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On second thought - are these symbols present when linking to a

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libgpc ?

Does this matter anyhow? We are just trying to get the gdb command 'start' to end up at the right location, i.e. for a pascal program, at the start of the main procedure of the main source.

Yes, it matters. libgpc will not be loaded yet, so _p_initialize might be missing when we try to find the main function.

Would then looking after __imp_p_initialize find something? You need to excuse me, but I have no idea of the library loading works...

Anyhow, this can only lead to failures to detect GPC properly. I think that the patch, even if it might miss more cases, is also much more safe this way, because we only use (_p_MO__main_program or pascal_main_program) as start command breakpoint if '_p_initialize' was also found.

Pierre