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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Subject: Re: Symbolic tracebacks on Debian
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Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 09:28:32 -0400
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> "(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>
>> On 21/05/2010 09:52, in article 82bpc8s17m.fsf@stephe-leake.org, "Stephen
>> Leake" <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote:
>
>>> Because symbolic traceback are not supported on _all_ gnat platforms, I
>>> don't use them on _any_ - that way my code is portable. So I did not
>>> notice this problem.
>>> 
>>> I dump the stack trace as hex addresses, then later run addr2line
>>> manually if I want the symbolic trace.
>>
>> Can you say exactly what the steps are to do that?
>> I've never understood it + therefore never used it.
>
> You need to call
>
>    GNAT.Exception_Traces.Trace_On
>      (Kind => GNAT.Exception_Traces.Unhandled_Raise);

I never do this.

> from somewhere in your program and run gnatmake with -bargs -E.

I only do this if I want symbolic traces from the running program, which
I don't anymore.

-- 
-- Stephe