From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,31b8879c52cdbc65 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Gnat on OpenVMS Date: 1999/05/22 Message-ID: <1999May22.073615.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 480858413 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <7hshfq$5tc$1@front1.grolier.fr> <7ht4m2$4k7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Trace: news.decus.org 927372978 28743 KILGALLEN [216.44.122.34] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , nickerson@pundit.ds.boeing.com () writes: > imagine is a $ decision; you should not subsequently call that > (by implication) the correct technical decision; > > GDB may be Ada95 knowledgeable but it is nowhere close to the > VMS debugger in capablity & usablity; The VMS debugger is actually maintained by the group that maintains the operating system (as contrasted with days of yore, when it was maintained by the compiler folks). As a result it is starting to get incorporated more and more into tools like crash dump analysis and process dump analysis (if you want an example of something that has _never_ been good on VMS it is process dump analysis, but they know it and have gotten what is probably sufficient pressure to fix it). So for those who might receive a dump file in the mail from a VMS customer, the analysis tool is now and will continue to be tightly coupled to the VMS debugger. Some people may use Ada on VMS just to test drive code that will really be used in an embedded situation, but there are others who use it for production jobs that run on VMS. Larry Kilgallen