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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT built-in symbolic trace-back Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 20:21:54 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <6193ff6e-8e9e-43be-adde-6ae0483e76af@googlegroups.com> <1d814c1d-1cad-49ab-9ad3-fc9b310a4b9a@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: IzvqdhUtDGKIMCldyDtZ+w.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:54171 Date: 2018-08-15T20:21:54+02:00 List-Id: 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