Re: GDB and exceptions

[Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

dennison@telepath.com writes:

> In article <dbHQ2.754$36.263875@WReNphoon2>,
>   jboulais@sikorsky.com (Boulais, Jeffrey M) wrote:
> > I'm trying to set a breakpoint on exceptions.  Whenever I try, I get a
> > 'Couldn't open "a-except.adb": no such file or directory' message.  Does
> > anyone have a suggestion?
> 
> You mean when the exception occurs you get that? I get something very much
> like that. But its no big deal, since I don't *want* to debug that file. I
> can pretty much assume the Ada runtime is working correctly.
> 
> In the nice TK version of GDB, just select "Stacks" from the "Window" menu and
> click on the lowest numbered level that contains your code. That should place
> you on the line where the exception was raised.

And in the even nicer command line gdb under emacs (no bias here :),
just type "up" to go up one stack level, or "where" to see the full
list, then "frame n" to get to your code.

-- Stephe