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 X-Received: by 10.36.13.80 with SMTP id 77mr10254703itx.40.1519683999720; Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:26:39 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.11.165 with SMTP id 34mr261147oth.7.1519683999419; Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:26:39 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.unit0.net!peer03.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!w142no2017742ita.0!news-out.google.com!a2ni467ite.0!nntp.google.com!o66no2011684ita.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:26:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1288175616.541375784.664064.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=47.185.233.194; posting-account=zwxLlwoAAAChLBU7oraRzNDnqQYkYbpo NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.185.233.194 References: <5a8e17dc-1d52-4393-be58-8881e741c3a4@googlegroups.com> <1190543753.541369961.154390.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <6700ecea-cdfe-4c73-88ec-d98bafd9151b@googlegroups.com> <1288175616.541375784.664064.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Embeddinator-4000 begetting an Ada-cross-platform future? From: "Dan'l Miller" Injection-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:26:39 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2074 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2079381728 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50665 Date: 2018-02-26T14:26:39-08:00 List-Id: I did not say LLVM debugger in isolation. I said LLVM (the whole enchilada= ). The only way to get an Ada LLVM symbolic-debugging-session capability f= or apps deployed to actual iOS devices (not on simulators on MacOS) is to h= ave a GNAT with LLVM backend capable of generating Apple's ARM-target execu= tables & shared libraries plus symbol files that are all consumable by XCod= e's toolchain via supplemental files that define the Ada constructs/syntax = & ABI to the Apple-certficate-signed LLVM debugger. One does not get the l= ast step (symbolic debugging on iOS) without a whole chain of prerequisites= that accumulate to make it possible=E2=80=94hence the term toolchain.