Re: [PATCH] DW_AT_calling_convention support

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

[I can't approve this but] that sounds good to me.  I'm not arguing
that there shouldn't be a get_main_symbol, only that there should be
an opaque check for the main symbol which doesn't require calling both
that and get_main_name ().


On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:32:07AM -0400, Petr Sorfa wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> Great, however I do suggest get_main_symbol() for greater flexibility.
> I've moved the code to deal with DW_AT_calling_convention into
> dwarf2read.c's new_symbol() function (as opposed to detecting it while
> reading a type). Let me know what you think and I'll have a patch ready
> soon.
> 
> Petr
> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 09:53:35AM -0400, Petr Sorfa wrote:
> > > Hi Daniel,
> > >
> > > > I'd rather save a pointer the symbol for the main function, or
> > > > something along those lines - do you think that's workable?
> > > Sounds good. Note that I'm making the assumption that the symbol is
> > > associated with a type that is only associated with that symbol (iff).
> > >
> > > I think it should be API driven, like set_main_symbol () and
> > > get_main_symbol () and situated in symtab.c alonside set_main_name() and
> > > main_name().
> > 
> > Yep, that's about what I had in mind.  How about:
> > 
> >   set_main_name ()
> >   set_main_symbol ()
> >   is_main_symbol ()
> >     - if a main symbol is set, check if it is the same symbol
> >     - otherwise, check if it has the same name as passed to
> >       set_main_name
> > 
> > (with appropriate care for when we change object files.... to one
> > without a DWARF-2 main symbol, even...)
> > 
> > --
> > Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
> > MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
> 
> 

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer