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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,936b98ceff0d9f3e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-04 08:35:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!not-for-mail From: Thierry Lelegard Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: One language environment don't have future Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:30:47 +0100 Organization: CANAL+ TECHNOLOGIES Message-ID: <3E3FEAB7.4963E50C@canal-plus.fr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: host227.canal-plus.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 1044376248 9791 194.2.208.227 (4 Feb 2003 16:30:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 16:30:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [fr]C-CCK-MCD C+ (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: fr,en,zh-CN,zh-TW Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33778 Date: 2003-02-04T17:30:47+01:00 List-Id: 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