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From: wanker@exploited.barmy.army
Subject: Ada Debugger
Date: 1998/01/24
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Organization: The Exploited Barmy Army
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Originator: punkrock@pegasus
Date: 1998-01-24T00:00:00+00:00
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Hi all,

Before I start, I would like to say that I've browsed this
group, did searches in dejanews for old articles dealing
with this, did web searches, browsed the FAQs, and even
hopped over to the HBAP, and I could not find a satisfactory
answer to my question.  Now I come crawling to you :)

I've recently re-started working with Ada95 and I am having
a problem which I am sure others must be having.  No debugger.

Back when I used Ada95 for the first time (a year or two ago?),
gdb seemed to be the only game in town, and when I used it,
I was seriously unimpressed.  I still recall walking away
from my system in frustration when at certain points in my
code it expected me to debug in C++.  If I wanted to write
C++, why would I use Ada??????

Anyway, 2 years have passed and I'm hoping things aren't
so dismal any longer.  Are there any worthwile debuggers
out there, ones that will actually let you debug Ada code
without having to stoop down to using something primitive
like C++ (there's an idea!)?

Has gdb improved?

Oh, since I'm doing all of this as an excercise, the tools
have to be public domain.  What is available and where
can I find it?

Furthermore, to avoid the horror of spammers (may they all
be trampled underfoot by the mighty Shub Niggurath -- The
Goat With a Thousand Young), my email address is 
completely bogotified.  I would appreciate answers posted
here, and I'm sure this will be of service to others with
the same question (as the topic should make finding what
they need easy -- or so I hope).

Thank you in advance.