Ada support for GDB 6?

Ada support for GDB 6?

[Andreas Jaeger]

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What is the status of Ada support in GDB?  Will there be support for GDB 6
available?  

IMHO it's too late to have something in the official release but I'd
like to hear what are the plans to integrate the Ada support into CVS
mainline and whether there will be patches for this (I guess the 5.3
patch will not apply cleanly anymore to current 6.0 branch),

Cheers,
Andreas
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Re: Ada support for GDB 6?

[Paul N. Hilfinger]

I hope to (finally) get around to submitting the necessary patches
over the next few weeks.  It will take some time and occur in stages,
since for various reasons, quite a few places in GDB are affected (and
need hooks installed so that Ada-related code is confined for the most
part to the ada-* files).

You are right that it should not go into the official release. 

Paul Hilfinger

Re: Ada support for GDB 6?

[Andreas Jaeger]

"Paul N. Hilfinger" <hilfingr@otisco.mckusick.com> writes:

> I hope to (finally) get around to submitting the necessary patches
> over the next few weeks.  It will take some time and occur in stages,
> since for various reasons, quite a few places in GDB are affected (and
> need hooks installed so that Ada-related code is confined for the most
> part to the ada-* files).

Fine!

> You are right that it should not go into the official release. 

I would prefer to have it there - but it's to late unfortunatly IMO.

But I hope you make a patch available against the final release - it's
currently impossible to fix bugs in GCC's Ada copmiler without a
proper debugger. :-(

Thanks,
Andreas
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Re: Ada support for GDB 6?

[Joel Brobecker]

> But I hope you make a patch available against the final release - it's
> currently impossible to fix bugs in GCC's Ada copmiler without a
> proper debugger. :-(

You can always use the sources avaiable on ACT-Europe's libre site:
http://libre.act-europe.fr/.

-- 
Joel

Re: Ada support for GDB 6?

[Andreas Jaeger]

Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com> writes:

>> But I hope you make a patch available against the final release - it's
>> currently impossible to fix bugs in GCC's Ada copmiler without a
>> proper debugger. :-(
>
> You can always use the sources avaiable on ACT-Europe's libre site:
> http://libre.act-europe.fr/.

The information I found there is that those are against gdb-5.3, and I
fear this does not help with GDB 6.

Andreas
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Re: Ada support for GDB 6?

[Joel Brobecker]

> The information I found there is that those are against gdb-5.3, and I
> fear this does not help with GDB 6.

This is correct. But I thought using GDB 5.3 would be good enough to
debug your Ada code. No?

-- 
Joel

Re: Ada support for GDB 6?

[Andreas Jaeger]

Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com> writes:

>> The information I found there is that those are against gdb-5.3, and I
>> fear this does not help with GDB 6.
>
> This is correct. But I thought using GDB 5.3 would be good enough to
> debug your Ada code. No?

Yes, it helps - but I'd like to take advantage of GDB 6's new
improvement dwarf2 frame reader and all the other bug fixes,

Andreas
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