[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #9760: [Debugger] Automatically determine the correct start symbol for a program
- From: "anevilyak" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 20:13:19 -0000
#9760: [Debugger] Automatically determine the correct start symbol for a program
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Reporter: anevilyak | Owner: anevilyak
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Applications/Debugger | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Description changed by anevilyak:
Old description:
> Currently, the debugger is primarily oriented towards C/C+++, and as such
> presumes that the starting function will always be main(). Unfortunately,
> this isn't necessarily the case for other language ABIs such as
> {Free}Pascal. In the case of a debug executable, this can potentially be
> inferred from DWARF (still needs to be investigated in the spec), but a
> mechanism needs to be investigated in order to generally guess/infer the
> target language, and consequently, the correct start symbol.
New description:
Currently, the debugger is primarily oriented towards C/C+++, and as such
presumes that the starting function will always be main(). Unfortunately,
this isn't necessarily the case for other language ABIs such as
{Free}Pascal. In the case of a debug executable, this can potentially be
inferred from DWARF (still needs to be investigated in the spec), but a
mechanism needs to be derived in order to generally guess/infer the target
language, and consequently, the correct start symbol.
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