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Hi everyone, my real name is not Foo, it is Patrick, just keeping Google off my trail.

I have been using GnuCOBOL extensively since 2013. One thing that I love about it is that it compiles to intermediate C.

If you write a program, you can compile it to this, run ctags on the runtime and the intermediate C and then hop around jumping from the C function calls generated into the runtime to see how they are actually implemented.

I would like to do the same with Ada. Is there a way? Using readelf, I was able to get some clues and looking at the .ali files I had a few more clues but so far it does not seem to be the same thing.

-Patrick