Re: Quick Question about GPS IDE

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 04:15:56 -0800, Hubert wrote:

>> P.S. I don't count the debugger, because it is not an IDE's part actually.
>> AdaCore cannot do anything with gdb. Maybe they should consider supporting
>> other debuggers in GPS.
>>
> I don't understand, the gdb debugger seems to be relatively nicely 
> integrated with GPS?

Its gdb is totally unusable in any real-life sized project. You will not be
able to initialize the program and set a break point, as simple as this.

And in general using breakpoints and inspecting variables and the stack is
only one technique of debugging, the ancient debuggers like gdb single it
out. This technique is not always useful for Ada with tasking, real-time,
external I/O (uncontrollable events). Neither it is for on-line
introspection and problem tracking in already deployed applications and
their components like shared libraries.

In short, I would consider GPS debugger non-existent, and from a very early
project stage integrate good tracing facilities into it. GNAT's RTL has
some nice tools for exceptions tracking and symbolic stack tracing. They
don't work with MS formats, unfortunately, but it is better than nothing.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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