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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d5b211b0c1ffcf3e X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.68.228.227 with SMTP id sl3mr932510pbc.5.1340313497875; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:18:17 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni4508pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Practicalities of Ada for app development Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:18:17 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <79c5c9f7-4b72-4990-8961-b3e2db4db79b@qz1g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:18:17 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="cJo7kSTQUrCFv2/D8KKtqw"; logging-data="23613"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19hpQ7ERS8eQwayV0fSuwdi" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:hr7WL01g04F5Tr5z8ZnHy9POSiY= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-06-21T23:18:17+02:00 List-Id: Le 21/06/2012 23:00, Randy Brukardt a �crit : > The only time the debugger hassle is worth it is when the bug is > sufficiently low-level that you can't debug it at the Ada level (as when a > register has the wrong value for some reason, causing a hardware fault). And > that usually takes me many hours (usually an entire working day) for a > single problem, as opposed to dealing with a problem an hour or so at the > Ada level. Although I fully agree with you, I can add another use case where a debugger can be useful: when you enter an infinite loop and you don't have the foggiest idea where it is - assuming that ^C works, which is not always the case. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr