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=2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_DATE, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6c88d608f416c108 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-17 21:39:30 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!sun4nl!hacktic!mbase97.xs4all.nl!gijs From: gijs@mbase97.xs4all.nl (Maarten Landzaat) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: Organization: M-BASE Subject: Re: Anyone built a debugger for Ada? References: <3a6mbe$clc@coyote.rain.org> Reply-To: gijs@mbase97.xs4all.nl X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.10 Rev. May 17 1993 Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 08:46:12 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 1994-11-14T08:46:12+02:00 List-Id: In <3a6mbe$clc@coyote.rain.org>, Henri Altarac writes: >Maarten Landzaat (gijs@mbase97.xs4all.nl) wrote: >: Hi, > >: I'm trying to build a simple debugger for Ada programs, because Adaprobe >: (debugger from Alsys) does not work in our environment. I'll describe > > >Can you elaborate. Why cannot you use AdaProbe? (and what did Alsys say ?) Our target is a special 68000 board. I don't know the details, since another team actually deals with this thing, but I understand that the compiler or parts of it has been rewritten for this particular target. Also, there is an Ada_Connect package that allows us to talk to the 68000 over the bus. The team told me that when this package is used, Adaprobe doesn't run. Alsys says: "We'll fix it". It's been saying this for over a year now. It's still not fixed, so in the meantime we're doing what we can. > >Your approch will probably work but it looks like your >program will end up being quite large with all the add-on code and the >execution will sure be slow if you trace every line. I'm aware of that. But how do you 'step' with a real debugger? Doesn't that also work with added code between every source line? >Building the 'image for any type is going to be quite complex. I suggest >you look into ASIS that brings you a higher level description of your >application instead of lex/yacc. Thanks, I'll look into that. -- Maarten Landzaat (gijs@mbase97.xs4all.nl) Amsterdam, Double bass, Fender Jazz Bass, Atari ST, Roland Sound Canvas. Listen to M-BASE music!