[Info-vax] ada archives and debug

[John Reagan]

On Friday, January 19, 2018 at 11:06:17 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> 
> Itanium integration would be somewhat easier, as the more common ELF 
> and DWARF formats are used on OpenVMS I64.   There'd probably be some 
> need to update for any VMS-isms in that, and work in the debugger to 
> add support for Ada there.
> 

Since most of the debugger is common code between Alpha and Itanium, there is already lots of "lang=ada" support in the debugger.  The debugger converts either the Alpha DSTs or the Itanium DWARF into a common internal format.  I haven't looked a the DWARF to RST conversion to see what it might do with anything specifically Ada'ish like PACKAGES and the like.