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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: GNAT -vs- ObjectAda (was Re: where is the faq)
Date: 1999/07/17
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In article <3790b774.0@news.pacifier.com>,
  "Steve Doiel" <nospam_steved@pacifier.com> wrote:
In our
> code we quietly write the exception information to a file and
keep the
> system running.  We can then correct the cause of exceptions
at our
> leisure.  I believe that GNAT would require that the program
be stopped
> in the debugger.

In fact it is quite easy to write a debugger script that would
achieve this automatically, several of our customers have used
such scripts. There is no need to stop the program.

> BTW: I have heard that in some time in the future (don't know
when)
> similar traceback information will be available for GNAT.

Various traceback capability is indeed available in GNAT version
3.12. I will post an announcement about GNAT 3.l2 today or
tomorrow.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies


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