Re: Newbie: Best Ada Compiler for MS Windows ?

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:<Qfmt8.3536$qI3.1733340336@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>...
> >[creating a symbolic stack dump on exceptions]
> >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. :-)
>   It took a long time official Gnat to have this capability.  How many
> people took advantage of that Freedom and fixed it in their version
> of Gnat themselves?

Firstly, the capability *is* there now, so it wouldn't take anywhere
near the same kind of work as developing the symbolic trace initially
took. Most likely all that would have to be done would be to find the
code that implements Exception_Information and have it call the code
that implements the custsom Gnat attribute.

Secondly, it doesn't really matter that only a small percentage of
users would be willing and able to do this. It only takes one
(assuming they are willing to share).


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