From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,c689b55786a9f2bd X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "John B. Matthews" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada & gdb (was: for S'Image use Func??) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 14:02:45 -0400 Organization: The Wasteland Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: LQJtZWzu+iKlBROuDg+IUg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11458 Date: 2010-05-10T14:02:45-04:00 List-Id: In article , Warren wrote: > GDB: > > One thing that I really miss in gdb, is the ability to > set breakpoints. Often what I need to step through is > buried deep inside the interpreter at a particular method, > or "procedure". While gdb seems to know about Ada (mostly), > I cannot seem to set qualified breakpoints where I need them. > > Is there some secret gdb voodoo for that? It's "help" > doesn't seem to hint at this. It works for simple names, > but if I need to qualify the "name" in any way, it rejects > the request. I'm using cygwin's gdb: > > $ gdb --version > GNU gdb 6.8.0.20080328-cvs (cygwin-special) (gdb) help break Set breakpoint at specified line or function. ... Here's a lengthier transcript: http://sites.google.com/site/trashgod/adagdb -- John B. Matthews trashgod at gmail dot com