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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: Newbie: Best Ada Compiler for MS Windows ?
Date: 11 Apr 2002 06:42:54 -0700
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Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message news:<u8z7vbii4.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>...
> So if our hypothetical lazy newbie tries to get a stack dump from an
> exception, they will succeed with the "non-free" compiler, and fail
> with GNAT.

...assuming the "non-free" compiler actually puts a stack dump in
Exception_Information. Sad to say, that's a big assumption. The last
proprietary Ada compiler I used put nothing of use in there at all.
After I complained they eventually put a stack trace in there, but it
wasn't symbolic, which meant you had to have a debugger going at the
time of the exception to make any use out of it.

Remember, the thing that makes a Free compiler cool isn't that it
doesn't cost us anything to use (in fact, that's not really the case
for many people), its that we are Free to fix annoying stuff like this
ourselves. :-)


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