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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Ada Type Information
Date: 1999/03/09
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In article <7c0rvn$7os$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dennison@telepath.com wrote:
>
> But if you stick to GCC technology, there's probably some
> standard for the "-g" output. Perhaps there's even a
> document somewhere describing it for prospective debugger
> writers. This might be a reasonable option, assuming you
> are willing to keep up with any changes the gcc folks put
> in

The basic standard for the -g output is of course NOT
gcc specific, since generally the system standard format
is used (e.g. MDEBUG on o32 IRIX, DWARF2 on n32 IRIX,
STABS on Solaris etc). The encodings for Ada data
structures are GNAT specific, and can be found documented
in exp_dbug.ads.

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