Re: Gnat's Ada.Float_Text_IO.Put problem

[Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>]

On Friday 16 January 2004 09:48, tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be better to recompile the GNAT runtime library with
> > debugging turned on (-g), and step through it with the debugger
> > to find out exactly where things are going wrong?
>
>    I'm in favor of debugging incorrect programs.  But was the OP
> interested in debugging Gnat or in running some program, and getting
> correct output, of his own?

One way of getting a correctly running program is to fix GNAT yourself.
For the runtime library this often isn't hard.

> Also, isn't that version of Gnat already
> obsolete and replaced by a less buggy one?

I didn't follow the thread, so I don't know which version it was - gcc-3.3?

> Suggesting that ACT or
> somebody knows about and has fixed the bug.
>   And stepping through with a debugger is such a tedious method of
> debugging it's pretty near a last resort, for me at any rate.

It is tedious, but when you are trying to find out where things are going
wrong in a mass of code you are unfamiliar with (like the runtime library),
it can be quite helpful.

All the best,

Duncan.