Re: Debugging Generics with GNAT 3.07

[Gautier.DeMontmollin@maths.unine.ch (Gautier)]

dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> Rich asks
> 
> <<I have a generic package called queuel.  It lives in a set
> of files called queuel.ads and queuel.adb.  There is a
> "public" function in this package called clearqueue().
> When I am at a GDB prompt, and I type in break queuel.clearqueue,
> it behaves as though I have asked it to set a breakpiont on
> a function that does not exist.  I know the issue is not
> packages because if I use the same syntax with the name of a function
> in a non-generic package, it works fine.>>
> 
> You can't set a breakpoint in the template! It is just that a template,
> not code. You can set a breakpoint in a particular instance though, and
> you can step into generic instances (at least it certainly works for me!)

N.B.:
In the DOS version (EZ2LOAD), the post-mortem debugging (AD) finds and
shows the lines of the generic code when the instanciation is made
as a separate package.

G.