From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat 2013 is out! Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 16:22:26 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net /Ml+WBLaP6eAtp9UV75lDQjr77PGzbYHtxwxb6x3OL0Ul/I1eh Cancel-Lock: sha1:2pBwd8v/cSiKSbhOtinxogDVVOY= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.33.0.120411 Thread-Topic: Gnat 2013 is out! Thread-Index: Ac5e29JVdXYP4HHVg0e6dy258BJUtw== X-Original-Bytes: 1765 Date: 2013-06-01T16:22:26+01:00 List-Id: On 01/06/2013 07:46, in article koc55m$at7$1@dont-email.me, "J-P. Rosen" wrote: > Le 31/05/2013 18:12, dptrash@arcor.de a écrit : >> May I ask, how you debug Ada programs? Do you use GNATbench 2.7 for >> that? I need a good debugging tool :-) >> > I study my code carefully. Sometimes, I add traces to give me hints. > > There is an outstanding debugger in GPS (based on gdb, of course), but > each time I used it, I concluded that it didn't bring me much. Ada > protects you from all stupid errors, what remains are logical errors, > and you find logical errors by reasonning on your logic. Yup. I have never used a debugger on my Ada projects. In fact, I once raced a guy who was using his favoured debugger on his Ada program, and I found his error (by looking at his code) before he did. That's Ada. -- Bill Findlay with blueyonder.co.uk; use surname & forename;