Re: How to do basic debugging with Ada?

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

John Smith <yoursurrogategod@gmail.com> writes:

> All the way in the bottom is a simple hello world application. I
> compile it using gnatmake hello_world.  However, when I load it in gdb
> and try to set a breakpoint on the first output line, I get a message
> saying that the symbol table is not loaded.  If I'm missing a step,
> what is it?

Use the debug flags and minimal optimisation: -g -O0.

$ gnatmake -g -O0 hello_world3.adb 
gcc -c -g -O0 hello_world3.adb
gnatbind -x hello_world3.ali
gnatlink hello_world3.ali -g -O0
$ gdb hello_world3
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Reading symbols from hello_world3...done.
(gdb) start
Temporary breakpoint 1 at 0x10000140f: file hello_world3.adb, line 5.
Starting program: /Users/simon/tmp/hello_world3 

Temporary breakpoint 1, hello_world3 () at hello_world3.adb:5
5	  Put_Line("Hello, world!");
(gdb)