Re: GDB & GNAT

[dweller@dfw.net (David Weller)]

In article <3266455C.25F4@esy.com>, Hal Manuel  <hemanuel@GAR.ESYS.COM> wrote:
>Has anyone made an effort to incorporate the gdb-4.15.1.gnat.1.10
>patch into gdb?  I think that it would definitely be a plus to
>have gdb support debugging Ada programs, but I don't believe that
>gdb-4.16 supports it (nor is there a patch that I've been able to
>find to modify it to support it).
>

Hopefully, Dr. Dewar will have a better answer for this, but the short
answer is: There ain't a solution for you.  With the exception of the
SGI platform (well, there might be others), there is no halfway decent
source-level debugger available for GNAT.

Cygnus is busy integrating GDB with Tk, so there may be a chance to
integrate Ada sensitivity into it.

Paul Hilfinger, who did the work at UC Berkeley, indicated that the
effort to integrate the "GNAT" changes to 4.15 into 4.16 would be
"nontrivial".

Perhaps somebody in the gnat.com domain would care to coment on this?

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