Re: Practicalities of Ada for app development

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 21/06/2012 20:16, Adam Beneschan a �crit :

> Well, since I do get a lot of use out of debuggers, the assertion in
> the second half of your sentence is demonstrably false.  I don't
> understand it, either.  Why would a compiler, or a compiler's tools,
> be of such a substantially different nature than other programs, that
> would make a debugger useful in one situation and useless in another?

Here is my typical use case. Sometimes, AdaControl encounters an
unexpected combination of constructs, and generally fails with an Asis
message saying "improper element". The exception message tells me where
it happens, but generally the problem is slightly above, in the query
that produced the invalid value. I just add a trace message at this
query (I also have an integrated trace facility in AdaControl), and
rerun the program.

In general, I get /thousands/ of useless messages (and I can't predict
how many) before the one I'm interested in, that is, the last one before
the crash. I don't care, I just let the screen scroll... How could I do
that in a debugger? A breakpoint, and thousands of useless "go"
commands? No thanks.
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