Re: Alternative for Gnat Studio

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

John Perry <john.perry@usm.edu> writes:

> Honest question: do you have advice for debugging exceptions in
> GDB?*** I had to debug an exception the other day & I had a humdinger
> of a time determining what caused it. When the Ada RT raises an
> exception in GDB, GDB quits the program state altogether, so I have to
> employ guess-and-check methods to figure out where, say, an
> Ordered_Map Key_Error occurs. This is contrary to how GDB handles C++
> exceptions: the program stops immediately, so that you can examine the
> state, move up and down through the stack, etc.

I don't remember experiencing this? "catch exception" or "catch
exception Key_Error". I may not be able to see much in the RTS, but
I can certainly inspect my own code.