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Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:

> It is not a fully automatic method, but you could write a null Ada
> procedure DebugBreak and set a breakpoint in that procedure, manually
> from gdb, before starting the program. Then every call to DebugBreak
> will break, and you can look one level down in the call chain to see
> the state at the point of call.

Great idea!