Re: [Mingw-users] gcc 4.2 w/ gdb issue

[Danny S. <dan...@cl...>]

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> Of Brandon Sneed
> Sent: Friday, 15 June 2007 12:45 p.m.
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> Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] gcc 4.2 w/ gdb issue
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> On Jun 14, 2007, at 5:35 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> >
> > When gcc sees that it is compiling a function called main, 
> it inserts
> > an invisible call into __main on main's entry, so that the global  
> > ctors
> > are run before any user code in the body of main.  What 
> you're seeing
> > may be an interaction with that.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Pedro Alves
> >
> >
> 
> interesting!  thanks for the heads up.  one thing i did forget to  
> mention is that when its in the form of:
> 
> int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
> 
> argc has some astronomical value and argv[] is jibberish.
> 
> 


>From my experience global ctor's often muck up debug of main.  Maybe it
would help if __main and _do_globl_ctors were not stripped of debug
info? 
Danny

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