Re: One language environment don't have future

[Thierry Lelegard <thierry.lelegard@canal-plus.fr>]

Larry Kilgallen wrote:

> Currently the GNAT compiler for Alpha VMS uses the GDB debugger
> rather than the standard VMS debugger (at DEC's insistance when
> they signed the contract to have GNAT ported).  There have been
> customer complaints to VMS Development about that,

I am part of those

> and responses
> have been at least that having GNAT use the regular VMS debugger
> on Itanium is "under consideration".

Great, great idea. GDB on OpenVMS is a real pain (first, gdb has less
features than VMS Debug; second, the VMS port of GDB is deficient).

> In DEC parlance that likely
> means "not a p0" (priority).  Doing that on Itanium might be
> easier for the GNAT developers since Itanium VMS uses ELF and
> DWARF rather than a traditional VMS object format and DST records.

-Thierry