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<h3 class="section">2.1 Main Program</h3>

<p><a name="index-N_005fMAIN-1"></a>Most languages allow the main program to have any name.  The
<code>N_MAIN</code> stab type tells the debugger the name that is used in this
program.  Only the string field is significant; it is the name of
a function which is the main program.  Most C compilers do not use this
stab (they expect the debugger to assume that the name is <code>main</code>),
but some C compilers emit an <code>N_MAIN</code> stab for the <code>main</code>
function.  I'm not sure how XCOFF handles this.

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