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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: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 08:30:42 +0000
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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