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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9d3e1742bbcb99b3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-16 13:31:54 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!slsv6bt!slbh01.bln.sel.alcatel.de!rcvie!Austria.EU.net!newsfeed.ACO.net!swidir.switch.ch!epflnews!news From: weber@lglsun.epfl.ch (Mats Weber) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: DEC Ada for Alpha Computers Date: 15 Sep 1994 21:42:35 GMT Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Sender: madmats@lglsun.epfl.ch Message-ID: <35af4b$g6@info.epfl.ch> References: <1994Sep15.121515.24609@sei.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sicsts3.epfl.ch X-Posted-From: InterNews 1.0.1@sicsts3.epfl.ch X-Authenticated: madmats on POP host lglsun.epfl.ch Date: 1994-09-15T21:42:35+00:00 List-Id: In article <1994Sep15.121515.24609@sei.cmu.edu> lpb@sei.cmu.edu (Loic Briand) writes: > The problem is that the debugger needs to have a couple of specific features > implemented for each language. It looks like they were not implemented for Ada > (as they were not implemented if I remember correctly in the first versions > of DEC Ada/VMS). Note also that the debugger is working great with C. > is it realistic to hope that DEC will ever fix the problem? If yes, when? > Is there any alternate solution available today? (I know that Verdix--I mean > Rational has plans for Ada/Alpha but this it not available yet). I woudn't expect any vendor to fix debugger problems, at least no to a satisfactory level. I have seen no Ada debugger correctly handling programs with many generics and tasks. I have been participating in the development of a project with approx. 100 KLOC, and we have almost never been able to use a debugger to find the bugs. Note that this comment should not be taken as Ada bashing. Developping a debugger for Ada is much harder than for many other languages. And despite all the tracing we have had to add by hand to our code, I still wouldn't use any other language for a project of this size.