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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> GNAT provides stack traces at run time. You can have a symbolic trace
> back down to the individual source lines. [This does not work on some
> platforms, though. Which is the reason why it is not a language
> feature. The implementation burden would be too high for some small
> microcontroller]

But it's fine in the debugger (since the debug info is on the host). Of
course this doesn't help if the exception happens in deployed
software.