Re: What is wrong with Ada?

[Markus E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>]

Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> Markus E Leypold writes:
>> Which reminds me, that I wished that the compiler and the debugger
>> would work well enough together that I could just say: I now want a
>> trace (including parameters) of every call to modules M, M', ... and
>> would get it without too much fiddling. This is in my eyes what
>> debuggers are (should be) good for.
>
> Look into DTraq: http://www.mckae.com/dtraq.html
>
> Never used it myself, but it seems to be what you want.  Thank you,
> ASIS, and thank you, McKae Technologies.

Indeed that is very near. In practice it would suffice. But I meant
was actually different, i.e. that one doesn't need to change the
executable at all (DTraq only automates the instrumentation as I
understand it). The debugger has all means available to inspect the
application memory, the compiler could provide layout and type
information. That should suffice to "tap" even uninstrumented
executables automatically (but requires tighter integration with the
compiler).

Regards -- Markus