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Subject: Re: Symbolic tracebacks on Debian
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Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> I often find the stack trace from a multitasking program to be pretty
> useless. The real problem is in some inner task, but the stack trace
> you get is from the environment task.
>
> That's when you have to write code to have each task dump its own
> stack when it dies.

Unless you add (as I said above)

   GNAT.Exception_Traces.Trace_On
     (Kind => GNAT.Exception_Traces.Unhandled_Raise);

I think this may not work as advertised (or, possibly more annoying, may
be unreliable) on older GNATs.