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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 18:39:25 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat 2013 is out! Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:39:24 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: <282t19tfn0prjuibgqa2rkcvtu9sd4t4nl@4ax.com> References: <4taq191qkdba1kcqkps4iqe6t94t1bf1qc@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.79.217.85 X-Trace: sv3-zrkIxzac8jafGO6qt34pzzrAi/0lBvxov2Z57MUIcemAQsi6YsBlF9nxGFHsTcgRxc4oImuSjHFRNId!cRgMP2kwwPwErgmJVdZQTuBKqPP5Ep9Wa4C+q/S6rh7ANRQTVdZpA88BQySl+bJ8+bHeMjYMef5s!vaJGOU+H0jRac4ffoaJ/JRazY9E= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2469 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:183209 Date: 2013-08-28T19:39:24-04:00 List-Id: On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:35:03 +0200, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" 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 ... -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/