Re: Newbie: Best Ada Compiler for MS Windows ?

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

"sk" <noname@myob.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1018425423.3748.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
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> "gnat.traceback.symbolic.symbolic_traceback(oops)"
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> and
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> "ada.text_io.put_line(ada.exceptions.exception_information(oops));"
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> should be considered equivalent ?
>

FWIW, I'd much prefer the latter since it is standard-issue Ada that will a)
work on all compilers, b) is documented in the ARM and c) what most run of
the mill Ada programmers would first attempt when trying to handle
exceptions. Making sure that Ada.Exceptions.Exception_Information yields
something useful is, IMHO, an important thing for a compiler to do. While it
may be perfectly legal Ada to return an empty string, it would clearly be
much more useful to get a string filled with a symbolic traceback. (I'd
accept having to throw some compiler switches to get it since it might be an
efficiency issue for production code, but a solution should exist.)

MDC
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