[Lldb-commits] [lldb] [lldb/Target] Add GetStartSymbol method to DynamicLoader plugins (PR #99673)

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jimingham wrote:

I agree with Pavel, we don't for most purposes care whether there's a symbol at the start address (for instance we can use it for the "expression evaluation return breakpoint" as an address.  So we shouldn't require the symbol.

Jim

> On Jul 22, 2024, at 12:04 AM, Pavel Labath ***@***.***> wrote:
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> I'd like to note that, at least in the ELF world, there's no guarantee that there will be an actual symbol at the address where the process starts executing. The convention is to call this _start but nothing in the system actually relies on that. The ELF header contains the address of the first instruction, the OS jumps to that, and that's it.
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> So, I think that a more generic interface would be to return an Address (which the caller can try to resolve to a symbol if it wants to).
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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/99673