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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: GDB Woes Continued...
Date: 1998/02/02
Date: 1998-02-02T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34D5E61B.4EC8@gsfc.nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6b07b3$inj$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU


wanker@exploited.barmy.army wrote:
> 
> I'm sorry if you are sick of hearing from me, but there is no
> where else to turn.  Nothing works, and the documentation
> (when it is to be found) is 100% useless or worse (misleading).
> 
> The only thing now keeping me from reverting to C/C++ (at least
> I know their distributions work), is the fact that there are
> people here who claim to actually have this stuff working, so
> I still have some glimmer of hope.
> 

Please remember that you are using free software; the value you get out
of it is roughly proportional to the effort you put in (as opposed to
what you paid for it!). Be patient, and persevere.

GNAT/GDB is all based on the gnu software. For me, the best way to learn
how to use it is to download the sources from MIT
(ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/), because the sources usually have more
complete documentation (and if you've got lots of time, you can actually
read the code :).
 
How much did you pay for your C/C++ environment? For about the same
amount, you can buy an Ada compiler, and get a tech person to call.

That said, I've used both ObjectAda (Professional Edition) and GNAT/GDB,
and I prefer GNAT/GDB (except when I need to use Windows resources). But
I've gone thru the process of configuring it and learning how to read
the manuals. I still can't get GDB to work properly on my machine at
work under Win95; but that machine also has NT, where GDB works fine.

-- 
- Stephe




  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-02-02  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-01-31  0:00 GDB Woes Continued wanker
1998-01-31  0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-02-02  0:00   ` Martin C. Carlisle
1998-02-02  0:00   ` Roger Racine
1998-02-02  0:00     ` wanker
1998-02-02  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-03  0:00         ` Ronald Cole
1998-02-03  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-04  0:00             ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-02-05  0:00               ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-09  0:00               ` Martin C. Carlisle
1998-02-04  0:00             ` Roger Racine
1998-02-04  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-04  0:00                 ` Roger Racine
1998-02-04  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-04  0:00             ` Andrew Lynch
1998-02-02  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-04  0:00         ` John English
1998-02-04  0:00           ` nA edisA Nick Roberts
1998-02-03  0:00   ` GDB Woes Continued vonhend
1998-02-02  0:00 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-02-02  0:00 tmoran
1998-02-02  0:00 ` wanker
1998-02-02  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02  0:00 Robert Dewar
1998-02-04  0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-02-04  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02  0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-02-05  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-03  0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-02-04  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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