Re: About static libraries and Debian policy

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Simon Wright writes on comp.lang.ada:
> Thanks for that, I'm sure it'll help. As an alternative, could use one
> of the GNAT.OS_Lib.Spawn calls?

Probably.  Other improvements are probably possible, too.  I haven't
worked on this in a long, long time (since the GNAT 3.15p days, in
fact).

> I notice that towards the end the comment says
>
> +      --  version dependant variants for the option names. Therefore our
> +      --  implementation spawns a shell script that does normalization of
> +      --  the option and then executes addr2line and communicates with it
> +      --  through a bidirectional pipe.
>
> but it looks to me as though it spawns addr2line drectly?
>
> +          char *const argv[] = { "addr2line",
> +                                 exe_name,
> +                                 "--demangle=gnat",
> +                                 "--functions",
> +                                 "--basenames",
> +                                 NULL };
> +          char *const envp[] = { NULL };
> +          if (execve("/usr/bin/addr2line", argv, envp) < 0) {
> +            CLOSE1; CLOSE2;
> +          }

The comment was the original from Jürgen Pfeifer.  I changed the
implementation to not use a shell script but I forgot to update the
comment.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.