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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Gnat on OpenVMS
Date: 1999/05/19
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In article <7hv83e$t2o$1@front4.grolier.fr>, "Thierry Lelegard" <lelegard@club-internet.fr> writes:

> I am not in love with the OpenVMS debugger, I just appreciate
> its functionalities. If GDB can achieve the same features,
> even with a different user interface (I don't care),
> I will be delighted to use it.

I have never used GDB, but the potential problem that concerns me
is debugging a multilingual program.  If one calls from Ada into
Bliss or PL/I, I presume GDB is not going to step through that
with beautiful debugging ability in both the Ada and non-Ada parts.
For those who prefer DEC C, I suppose it is possible to debug under
GNU and then switch to DEC C for qualification testing.

Of course I am not saying that things would be perfect with some
other arrangement.

Larry Kilgallen