Re: Possible GNAT bug, but wanted to see if it was a violtion of the RM

[Jere <jhb.chat@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 6:50:46 AM UTC-5, Simon Wright wrote:
> Jere writes:
> 
> > I wasn't able to get the GPL debugger to trigger on the exception.  I
> > tried stepping through the program but the application just exits at
> > the end without the debug info.  I tried putting an exception handler
> > and break point in that, but it never catches the exception (so either
> > I am not allowed to catch Program_Error or the exception happens
> > outside of my main operation).
> 
> I just said
> 
>    (gdb) catch exception
> 
> If this doesn't work - it says
> 
>    Your Ada runtime appears to be missing some debugging information.
>    Cannot insert Ada exception catchpoint in this configuration.
> 
> then invoke gdb with the -readnow switch. This may be a macOS thing, but
> see http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11385 .

Thanks!  I've never messed with the debugger at the command level.  I always
just invoked it from GPS using the menus.  I guess I need to start looking
at learning how to work it by hand.