Re: Ada Advocacy.

[Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:12:08 -0500, Wes Groleau
<groleau@freeshell.org> wrote:

>>>The good Ada feature for the debug purpose is an image of enumeration values.
>>>But I do not think that we need image of the object names.
>
>However, I could imagine the usefulness of something like
>
>   pragma Debug_Output ( Debugging => true, Entity_Name );
>
>where, if Debugging is false, does nothing, otherwise
>prints something like
>
>    Entity_Name => (something like Entity_Name'Img)
>    at line 345 of filename.adb (line 37 of Package.SubProg)

... instantiated at ...,
... with the parameters ...,
... the call stack is ...,
... during winding up the exception ...,
... raised in ... <substitute here the whole list again>,
... the current task is ...,
... invoked at ... (:-))

Almost forgot, I want to redirect debug info into a list box of a
window.
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I think that nothing can supersede a mature debugger (/=gdb), plus
carefully developed tracing tool integrated into the program.

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Regards,
Dmitry Kazakov
www.dmitry-kazakov.de