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From: volkert@nivoba.de (Volkert)
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Subject: Re: One language environment don't have future
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Thierry Lelegard <thierry.lelegard@canal-plus.fr> wrote in message news:<3E40E76D.DF8A112F@canal-plus.fr>...
> > > Great, great idea. GDB on OpenVMS is a real pain (first, gdb has less
> > > features than VMS Debug; second, the VMS port of GDB is deficient).
> > 
> > Of what version of gdb for OpenVMS you are talking.
> 
> The GDB which comes with GNAT 3.15 and 5.00 is 4.17. I am not aware
> of a more recent GNAT-aware GDB for OpenVMS.
> 
> > Can you give some examples.
> 
> - The only GUI is gdbtk
Yes, that's a pain. We hope to use GVD under NT with
the a gdbserver on OpenVMS (remote debugging).

> - Break points, trace points mostly work, sometimes they don't
> - Watch points do not work
> - Multithreaded debug is a pain
> - No multi-language support (with DEC compilers)
> - Etc
We have the GNU gdb 4.17.gnat.3.16w.41. installed here.
A person from ACT said that this new version is much better than
the old one. I try to reprocedure your examples and post the result
here ...

Volkert