------- Additional Comments From woodzltc at sources dot redhat dot com 2005-08-09 04:11 ------- OK. I had some time and would like to have a look into this, and I found something inconsistent. My founding is listed below, wishing that it can help clarify the situation a little: 1. Someone mentioned DW_AT_entry_point in above comments. It should be a typo IMHO. In DWARF standard, there is no such an attribute named DW_AT_entry_point, but there does exist a tag named DW_TAG_entry_point. 2. Seen from the DWARF standard, DW_TAG_entry_point doesn't live to act as what was supposed to do. Section-3.3 of DWARF-3 standard (Subroutine and Entry Point Entries) says: DW_TAG_entry_point A Fortran alternate entry point Although I am not very sure about what it means by "alternate entry point". But I believe that it is not to represent the entry point in the final executable. 3. I had a browsing over the DWARF standard, didn't found anything that is the same as N_MAIN in stabs. Maybe we can suggest DWARF to add such a tag? Any comments? Regards - Wu Zhou
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