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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Can't "catch exception" in gdb on OS X
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 08:30:42 +0000
Date: 2016-03-05T08:30:42+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lyk2lhjphp.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b7e2e028-7810-497d-b19c-9f92657e3c2b@googlegroups.com

Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net> 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


  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-05  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-05  5:24 Can't "catch exception" in gdb on OS X Jerry
2016-03-05  8:30 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2016-03-08  8:50   ` Jerry
2016-03-08 11:29     ` Simon Wright
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