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Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> That's because GNAT GPL includes a non-standard 'libaddr2line.a'
> produced from binutils (and therefore pure GPL) and calls that to
> produce the symbolic tracebacks.  GCC (from the FSF) lacks this
> library.  I patched GCC to use an alternate mechanism instead,
> i.e. fork()/exec() and call /usr/bin/addr2line.  This restores the
> functionality in the FSF version of GNAT.

Ludovic, could you point me towards the patch for this? On Mac OS X, we
don't have addr2line, the equivalent is atos.