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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8c54bb73b6fd8d22 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Stephen Leake Subject: Re: GDB Woes Continued... Date: 1998/02/02 Message-ID: <34D5E61B.4EC8@gsfc.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 321384353 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6b07b3$inj$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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