From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: GNAT built-in symbolic trace-back
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 20:21:54 +0200
Date: 2018-08-15T20:21:54+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pl1r04$135v$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1d814c1d-1cad-49ab-9ad3-fc9b310a4b9a@googlegroups.com
On 2018-08-15 17:56, Anh Vo wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 12:08:06 AM UTC-7, gautier...@hotmail.com wrote:
>> Had a (positive) shock this morning, looking at gnatbind options: there is a built-in symbolic trace-back! The switch is -Es . I thought it was a feature that would never be implemented after 20+ years of GNAT's existence...
>> A short research shows me that:
>> - it is there since GNAT GPL/Community 2016
>> - GPS GPL 2017 doesn't show it in the Project Properties box - only a checkbox for the old -E switch
>
> With this capability, most of the time (99%) a debugger is not needed.
Certainly so with gdb, which is not usable in any way. But some working
visual debugger could be a useful addition to tracing. I still remember
the great DEC's debugger for VMS.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2018-08-15 7:08 GNAT built-in symbolic trace-back gautier_niouzes
2018-08-15 10:36 ` Simon Wright
2018-08-15 15:56 ` Anh Vo
2018-08-15 18:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2018-08-15 23:22 ` Roger
2018-08-16 12:34 ` alby.gamper
2018-08-15 20:47 ` jrmarino
2018-08-21 1:36 ` Randy Brukardt
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