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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.31.162.195 with SMTP id l186mr2289983vke.18.1486439244882; Mon, 06 Feb 2017 19:47:24 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.62.29 with SMTP id a29mr700924otd.5.1486439244722; Mon, 06 Feb 2017 19:47:24 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!216.166.98.84.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!q58no1234240qte.0!news-out.google.com!15ni4460itm.0!nntp.google.com!r185no1987542ita.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 19:47:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=144.132.203.17; posting-account=wavAeAoAAAAZF_sXSZepBukuPCBO0Zqt NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.203.17 References: <427190d2-0fb4-465b-b1be-0a10d9b2d290@googlegroups.com> <1ce198d4-7316-436d-8867-e323a5ab1741@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Visual Studio IDE - Integration From: alby.gamper@gmail.com Injection-Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 03:47:24 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:33267 Date: 2017-02-06T19:47:24-08:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 5:36:38 AM UTC+11, Scott Loyd wrote: > I'd be interested in such a plugin if it improves debugging, but I would = have to see it to believe it. GDB is just so bad in my experience and unfor= tunately a better (free) tool hasn't been developed in 30 years, at least t= hat I'm aware of. GPS makes a good editor/build environment, but the debugg= ing interface which uses GDB is terrible. I have to believe a similar inte= rface to Visual Studio would have similar results, but I'm willing to try i= t. Dear Scott Being relatively new to Ada, I had not realized GDB has such a bad reputati= on. But I believe I have three possible solutions, these being 1) continue using GDB, this at least integrates most of the important VS 20= 15 debug related windows (ie watchpoints, locals, tasks, registers etc...) 2) investigate use of LLDB 3) convert the DWARF debug info to Microsoft PDB format, and then use the V= S2015 supplied debugger. Ive done some work on this already, and the results look= very promising (step into/out work much better than GDB, and disassembly include= s the original Ada source code as well) The only thing that bugs me :-) is that local symbols are all converted to lowercase (both for option 1) and obviously 3) I assume this is expected ? Is their a compiler/linker switch to preserve the case of symbols in the DW= ARF debug info ? Thanks for your feedback Alex