Re: gdb question, was Re: Ada vs. C++

["Jeff Creem" <jcreem@atetola.mv.com>]

Mike Dimmick <mike@dimmick.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:952459362.11185.1.nnrp-12.d4e5bde1@news.demon.co.uk...

>
> My own experience with gdb, under linux, was very nasty -- though it may
> have been the version of gdb (4.17.0.11): it insisted on listing the C
> files that GNAT generated rather than my source files!  All I wanted to
> find out was where I was getting an exception raised.
>
> I ended up recompiling the program (which was minimal anyway) under
> Windows and using GDB/TK to find the source line.  This release actually
> told me under the backtrace where the error was occurring.
>

Actually GNAT only generates 1 c file (and the newer versions don't even
have to do that).

If you had checked the documentation and/or stepped into the code a little
the ada would have
magically appeared... Of course I am assuming that you had the Ada aware
gdb....(And even
if you did not, you could still see the Ada source).

I do prefer the ddd interface to gdb...Makes it much easier to use when you
don't use gdb
much.

As always I would recommend consulting the super secret hidden information
about gdb and GNAT the the
files who's names can not be mentioned...