Re: [PATCH] Make gdb debugging a bit less painful

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:30:40AM +0200, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> diff -rup grub-1.95.orig/kern/main.c grub-1.95/kern/main.c
> --- grub-1.95.orig/kern/main.c	2007-01-29 15:31:36.000000000 +0100
> +++ grub-1.95/kern/main.c	2007-01-30 18:29:55.000000000 +0100
> @@ -106,6 +106,14 @@ grub_load_normal_mode (void)
>    grub_errno = GRUB_ERR_NONE;
>  }
>  
> +#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
> +/*
> + * Let GDB find the stack top
> + */
> +void
> +main (void) __attribute__ ((alias("grub_main")));
> +#endif

grub_main() isn't always the function we want for top of the stack.  For
example cmain() in kern/ieee1275/cmain.c does quite a bit of things already.

I'm not sure what would be an ellegant way to solve this... :-/

-- 
Robert Millan

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