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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Can't "catch exception" in gdb on OS X
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:29:59 +0000
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Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net> writes:

> On Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 1:30:44 AM UTC-7, Simon Wright wrote:
>> Jerry writes:
>> 
>> > I'm on OS X 10.9.5 trying to debug a GNAT program. When I type
>> >
>> >    catch exception
>> >
>> > when the program is in the debugger but paused at the automatically
>> > inserted breakpoint at the first line, I get this:
>> >
>> >     Cannot insert Ada exception catchpoints in this configuration.
>> 
>> I wrote about this at [1]; there's a GDB Bugzilla entry about it[2].
>> 
>> The simplest solution I've found is to invoke gdb with -readnow.
>> 
>> [1]
>> http://forward-in-code.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/catching-exceptions-in-gdb.html
>> [2] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11385
>
> Thanks, Simon. Google didn't point me to your blog because I entered
> the current gdb error text and it looks like the text has changed
> since you wrote.
>
> Your suggestions including using -readnow in the gdb call and first
> telling gdb to "break __gnat_debug_raise_exception" work on GNAT GPL
> 2015 but not GPL 2014 on my machine running OS X 10.9.5. I also have
> FSF gcc-4.9.1 installed but it isn't codesigned and I didn't bother
> with trying it. If this would be useful feedback I will do that
> (codesign, reboot).
>
> For GPL 2015, behavior was the same whether or not I used -readnow. In
> both cases, I had to first "start" before having "catch exception"
> recognized.

I'm running 10.11.3 (El Capitan), which requires -readnow (or maybe the
break?) for both GNAT GPL 2015 and FSF GCC 5.2.0. I certainly don't have
to 'start'!

I can't investigate for earlier OS releases, sorry.

I don't think codesigning makes any difference to whether 'catch
exception' is accepted.