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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Re-write a file in Ada
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:26:57 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:52:02 -0800, gautier_niouzes wrote:

> On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 1:27:22 PM UTC+1, Brian Drummond wrote:
> 
>> Agreed. Traceback would be very helpful. 

> There is a way that doesn't need calling post-mortem addr2line: wrap
> your main procedure with the TB_Wrap generic procedure below, by
> instanciating the wrapper like this:
>   with TB_Wrap, To_BMP;
>   pragma Elaborate_All(TB_Wrap);
>   procedure TB_To_BMP is new TB_Wrap(To_BMP);

Excellent! I'll play with this.

Ready access to this sort of resource would make a beginning Ada 
programmer's life much easier. 

I'm sure most Ada experts (i.e. folks with much more experience than I 
have) either have no need of it, or have already rolled their own 
solution, or use tools that do it automagically. I've seen something 
equivalent in Dmitry's Simple Components but I've never tried extracted 
it as a stand-alone solution.

So I've just used addr2line when I've needed to.

-- Brian