From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: The best thing/greatest feature summary
Date: 31 Oct 2000 14:58:23 -0500
Date: 2000-10-31T14:58:23-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6AEtYY2+OZIz@eisner.decus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: OTDL5.376306$i5.6185408@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com
In article <OTDL5.376306$i5.6185408@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com>, tmoran@acm.org writes:
>>increase the detail in the error message, and be able to print or
>>log the name of the routine or class in which it occured.
> The better Ada compilers give a walkback in the string returned
> by Ada.Exceptions.Exception_Information, eg
> CONSTRAINT_ERROR
> Divide By Zero Detected
> On Line Number 7 In TEST.SOME_PROCEDURE
> Called from line number 12 In TEST
> and of course you can force an exception just to get such a string.
What "the better Ada compilers" do is not really a characteristic of the
language. VMS gives traceback for all languages, each in accordance with
their limitations (such as not detecting some error in the first place).
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2000-10-27 22:08 ` The best thing/greatest feature summary Wes Groleau
2000-10-28 1:01 ` Lothar Scholz
2000-11-24 2:15 ` Peter Horan
2000-11-24 0:00 ` Lothar Scholz
2000-11-24 0:00 ` Friedrich Dominicus
2000-10-28 1:03 ` Lothar Scholz
2000-10-31 14:44 ` Tom Hargraves
2000-10-31 18:07 ` tmoran
2000-10-31 19:58 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2000-11-01 1:56 ` Tom Hargraves
2000-10-31 19:28 ` James Rogers
2000-11-01 2:13 ` Tom Hargraves
2000-11-01 3:27 ` James Rogers
2000-11-01 12:48 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-01 14:03 ` Pat Rogers
2000-11-01 15:30 ` James Rogers
2000-11-01 22:12 ` Tom Hargraves
2000-11-01 22:44 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-01 22:54 ` Pat Rogers
2000-11-01 23:47 ` James Rogers
2000-11-02 5:25 ` Pat Rogers
2000-11-02 5:28 ` Pat Rogers
2000-11-02 22:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-11-02 3:45 ` Reflection (was: Re: The best thing/greatest feature summary) Jeff Carter
2000-11-02 6:57 ` Ray Blaak
2000-11-02 8:42 ` tmoran
2000-11-02 11:19 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-11-02 18:09 ` tmoran
2000-11-02 12:51 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-11-03 2:26 ` Jeff Carter
2000-11-02 14:33 ` Tucker Taft
2000-11-02 16:02 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-04 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-11-03 2:23 ` Jeff Carter
2000-11-03 5:05 ` Randy Brukardt
2000-11-03 5:28 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-04 4:13 ` Jeff Carter
2000-11-10 0:00 ` The best thing/greatest feature summary jacob navia
2000-10-31 21:01 ` Wes Groleau
2000-10-30 20:19 ` Roger Browne
2000-10-31 16:24 ` Greg
2000-10-31 16:55 ` Roger Browne
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