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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,631686271a29a357 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English) Subject: Re: Common Error/Exception Handler Date: 1996/05/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 153727246 references: <4mg905$9ll@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <318BBAF4.41C67EA6@escmail.orl.mmc.com> organization: University of Brighton, UK newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-05-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Theodore E. Dennison (dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com) wrote: : The VAX/Ada compiler had a feature where any fatal runtime error : produced a full stack dump, including code block labels and line : numbers, if run under the debugger. (This "feature" may have actually : been a DEC debugger script. Anyway,...) : [...snip...] : To be honest, I'm suprised more compilers or linkers don't offer an : option to produce a stack dump (although core dumps can be pretty : useful too). One of the things that really annoys me about GNAT is the ubiquitous "raised unhandled exception" message. A bit more detail (exception name as a minimum, file name & source line number preferably) would make life *sooo* much easier... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John English , Dept. of Computing, University of Brighton "Disks are divided into sex and tractors..." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------