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 10.36.83.14 with SMTP id n14mr2640549itb.30.1486453600264; Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:46:40 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.39.202 with SMTP id c68mr725768otb.8.1486453600234; Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:46:40 -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!news.glorb.com!r185no2024522ita.0!news-out.google.com!78ni4775itm.0!nntp.google.com!r185no2007898ita.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 23:46:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a01:e34:ec05:8e10:e477:c13a:1cf3:2e00; posting-account=21X1fwoAAABfSGdxRzzAXr3Ux_KE3tHr NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a01:e34:ec05:8e10:e477:c13a:1cf3:2e00 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: Hadrien Grasland Injection-Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 07:46:40 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:33268 Date: 2017-02-06T23:46:39-08:00 List-Id: Le mardi 7 f=C3=A9vrier 2017 04:47:25 UTC+1, alby....@gmail.com a =C3=A9cri= t=C2=A0: > 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 woul= d have to see it to believe it. GDB is just so bad in my experience and unf= ortunately a better (free) tool hasn't been developed in 30 years, at least= that I'm aware of. GPS makes a good editor/build environment, but the debu= gging interface which uses GDB is terrible. I have to believe a similar in= terface to Visual Studio would have similar results, but I'm willing to try= it. >=20 > Dear Scott >=20 > Being relatively new to Ada, I had not realized GDB has such a bad reputa= tion. > But I believe I have three possible solutions, these being >=20 > 1) continue using GDB, this at least integrates most of the important VS = 2015 > debug related windows (ie watchpoints, locals, tasks, registers etc...) >=20 > 2) investigate use of LLDB >=20 > 3) convert the DWARF debug info to Microsoft PDB format, and then use the= VS2015 > supplied debugger. Ive done some work on this already, and the results lo= ok very > promising (step into/out work much better than GDB, and disassembly inclu= des the > original Ada source code as well) >=20 > The only thing that bugs me :-) is that local symbols are all converted t= o > lowercase (both for option 1) and obviously 3) I assume this is expected = ? >=20 > Is their a compiler/linker switch to preserve the case of symbols in the = DWARF > debug info ? >=20 > Thanks for your feedback >=20 > Alex To clarify, GDB is actually pretty awesome as a command-line tool. But no o= ne has ever bothered - or managed - to write a good GUI frontend for it.