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Subject: Re: GNAT built-in symbolic trace-back
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On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 12:08:06 AM UTC-7, gautier...@hotmail.com wrote:
> Had a (positive) shock this morning, looking at gnatbind options: there is a built-in symbolic trace-back! The switch is -Es . I thought it was a feature that would never be implemented after 20+ years of GNAT's existence...
> A short research shows me that:
>  - it is there since GNAT GPL/Community 2016
>  - GPS GPL 2017 doesn't show it in the Project Properties box - only a checkbox for the old -E switch

With this capability, most of the time (99%) a debugger is not needed.

Anh Vo