Re: Gnat 2013 is out!

[Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:35:03 +0200, "Dmitry A. Kazakov"
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> declaimed the following:

>
>On top of that comes the misery of GDB. I remember, in ObjectAda times,
>which had more or less decent debugger, I used it time to time. But I never
>managed to track any bug with GDB (under AdaGIDE and GPS). 

	Given the various languages and systems I've had to work with -- I was
more productive using "wolf-fences"*. This may change with my current
employment -- avionics isn't very conducive to "modify the source file to
debug".

*	the simple "PRINT" statement or equivalent. As it was described in an
ancient CACM (as I recall): There is a wolf in Alaska that you have to
catch. You build a fence across the state and then listen for the wolf to
howl -- that tells you which half of the state the wolf is in. Build a
second fence that bisects the half with the wolf and repeat...

Of course, it may be faster to quarter the state and listen for which
quarter the howl comes from ...
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