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On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 6:40:24 AM UTC-5, foo wong wrote:
> Hi everyone, my real name is not Foo, it is Patrick, just keeping Google =
off my trail.
>=20
> I have been using GnuCOBOL extensively since 2013. One thing that I love =
about it is that it compiles to intermediate C.
>=20
> If you write a program, you can compile it to this, run ctags on the runt=
ime and the intermediate C and
> then hop around jumping from the C function calls generated into the runt=
ime to see how they are
> actually implemented.
>=20
> I would like to do the same with Ada. Is there a way? Using readelf, I wa=
s able to get some clues and
> looking at the .ali files I had a few more clues but so far it does not s=
eem to be the same thing.
>=20
> -Patrick

https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~uday/courses/cs324-05/gccProjects/node4.html

gives some command-line options that you might find interesting.  Note that=
 that webpage has a typo:  it misspells GIMPLE as SIMPLE in one place, but =
then goes on to spell it correctly in the command-line flag name.  GIMPLE i=
s the AST primarily purposed for C/C++ to which Ada gets tree-transducer in=
 GNAT.