Re: Getting a symbol table from Gnat 3.15p on Windows

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

Well, I'm not sure about a map file. I'll have to look at that. It needs to
contain the symbolic names and type information for variables as well as
addresses. If you've got that much out of building the image, then a
solution does exist.

As for the debugger, I doubt that would be of much use. I really think I
need a second image communicating with the system under test and the
presence of the debugger would probably have performance issues, even if I
could find a way of feeding it scripts and getting back the results in some
usable manner. On one level a debugger looks kind of like a similar system -
deposit data in some locations (possibly a fairly large amount of it), turn
the crank on the software some prescribed number of times, then collect the
results (again maybe a fairly large volume of stuff) and put it somewhere
for analysis. But in other respects, it isn't really a debugging job because
it involves simulating the environment the software will see and creating
some unusual kinds of test scenarios. I need to keep the image under test as
simple as possible yet have external to it some fairly sophisticated means
of driving it. Having the image under test fire up the debugger & trying to
utilize that might be simultaneously too much and too little.

If I can figure out how to get the right symbol table info, the rest can be
made to work.

MDC
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sk <sk@noname.com> wrote in message
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>
> I cannot speak to windows, but I think that you could probably
> find a Linux box if you had to.
>
> 1) As "david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com" suggests (thru RTFM :-), make
> a map file.
>
> 2) Look at Gnat.Expect and spawn the debugger thru it feeding
> commands and reading responses thru scripts based upon the above
> map file.
>
> I havn't used Gnat.Expect, but a brief glance suggests that it
> might be a reasonable solution (everything about your post
> suggests a q&d effort).
>