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Subject: Re: GNAT exception traceback
Date: 1997/06/16
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> It would be an EXTREMELY valuable capability if the
> Ada.Exceptions.Exception_Information function carried with it some
> information about where the exception was originally raised or even
> better a full traceback.

Definitely.  I can accept the notion that the overhead might be too
high, but I have trouble with the notion (as an outsider)
that it is a tremendous amount of development due to implementation-
dependence.  If gdb can do it on all its supported platforms, could
not some subset of gdb code be jammed into the RTS somewhere?

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