Re: Need GDB Ada aware version

["Larry Elmore" <ljelmore@montana.campus.mci.net>]

HJRose wrote in message <19971107052100.AAA18483@ladder01.news.aol.com>...
>I am also looking for an Ada aware GDB that will run on a SGI  Challenge
under
> IRIX 6.x.  Also am looking for the same to run under Linux (x86).  Any
help
> would be greatly appreciated.


AFAIK, you'll have to get the GDB 4.16 sources, and the latest patch
(gdb-4.16.gnat.1.13.diff.gz) from ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/gdb/ and build
it yourself. The instructions with the patch are fairly clear (except they
don't mention that when you patch the gdb 4.16 source, you need to use
the -p0 option) and it's all straightforward after that. It went pretty easy
for me once I figured out the -p0 option when patching, though that might
not be necessary on your setup (though if it is necessary on some, not even
most or all systems, it _really_ should be included in the patch
instructions...).

This Ada-aware version of GDB isn't completely Ada-aware. It can't display
the contents of records under some situations, and seems to be totally
confused by nested procedures/functions. Apparently there's going to be a
major improvement sometime in the not-too-distant future, but only the good
people at ACT could tell you when it might become available (it's apparently
being worked on, but that's all I know).

Larry