Re: A new universe of Ada

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On 2022-09-26 08:20, Rick Duley wrote:
>
>> I have Gnat Studio but I can't do anything at all unless I create a
>> Project (whatever that is). Even then, I can't write and run
>> Hello_World unless I call it Main. The concept of an IDE where I can
>> step through a program checking changes in variable values as I go
>> seems to have vanished.
>
> That concept is called debugger. GDB for GCC (GNAT Ada is based in
> GDB). GDB never ever really worked except for little exercises. It
> still does not. So, forget about it.

Dmitry is an extreme pessimist about gdb; apparently he has had bad
experience with it.

On the other hand, I used GNAT with gdb for many years at NASA,
maintaining a spacecraft simulator; I never had a problem with gdb.

>> In short, I am lost and I can't find any material to help me find my
way.

There is a tutorial in the GNAT Studio Help menu, somewhere. I haven't
looked at it for years, I don't know if it covers debugging.

AdaCore has extensive resources for learning; see
https://learn.adacore.com/

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