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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Extra information in the message string of exceptions.
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2022 21:14:26 +0100
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On 06/06/2022 13:59, Rod Kay wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>     Any thoughts on pro's/con's of having the Ada standard packages 
> runtime provide extra information in the message string of exceptions ?
> 
>     For instance, a Constraint_Error message might provide details on 
> the variable name, the legal range and the erroneous value which caused 
> the exception.

This is something which could be added to either the language or the 
compiler. GNAT does have a dump backtrace call you could use.

Luke.