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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: detect main function even when there's no matching msymbol
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 12:33:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1q7b65q.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201008150855.2113290-1-andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> (Andrew Burgess's message of "Thu, 8 Oct 2020 16:08:55 +0100")

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> writes:

Andrew> Currently, GDB will only stop the backtrace at the main function if
Andrew> there is a minimal symbol with the matching name.  In Fortran programs
Andrew> compiled with gfortran this is not the case.  The main function is
Andrew> present in the DWARF, and as marked as DW_AT_main_subprogram, but
Andrew> there's no minimal symbol.

Andrew> This commit extends `inside_main_func` to check the full symbols if no
Andrew> matching minimal symbol is found.

Andrew> There's an updated test case that covers this change.

Andrew> gdb/ChangeLog:

Andrew> 	* frame.c (inside_main_func): Check full symbols as well as
Andrew> 	minimal symbols.

This looks good to me.  Thank you.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-09 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-08 15:08 Andrew Burgess
2020-10-09 18:33 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2020-10-11 17:45   ` Andrew Burgess

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