Re: Gnat on OpenVMS

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>]

In article <7hshfq$5tc$1@front1.grolier.fr>,
  "Thierry Lelegard" <lelegard@club-internet.fr> wrote:

One more comment on GDB on VMS. In the long run, we think that
the DEC decision here was the right one. The big advantage of
using GDB on the VMS port is that it is fully Ada 95 compatible,
something that could not have been achieved with the existing
VMS debugger, since DEC was not in a position to do the
necessary Ada 95 modifications. By using Dwarf-2 as the
format for debugging information, we can take full advantage
of the GNAT encodings and provide complete Ada 95 information
to GDB. We find GDB to work well on VMS (it was used extensively
to debug the compiler itself), and we are confident that Canal
Plus problems (only reported in the last few weeks) can in fact
be solved, there do not seem to be any fundamental difficulties
as far as we can see.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies


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