Unwinding stack past main() when it has another name

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:46:37PM +1000, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm just curious if there's a better solution for a problem I've come up 
> against recently.  I have been using gdb 6.3 and finding that all of my kde 
> program backtraces contain hundreds of irrelevant and corrupt-looking frames. 
> Upgrading to cvs fixed most of the problem (the corrupt looking frames), but 
> some frames still remain before the main function, which in kde programs is 
> called kdemain().
> 
> Is there something the kde sources can do to have gdb recognise kdemain() as 
> the replacement main() function, and thus prevent gdb from unwinding past it?

Is there really no main() on the backtrace?  There's no easy way in C
to mark another function as main or as not-backtraceable.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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