[Info-vax] ada archives and debug

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-01-19, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2018-01-18 19:44, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2018-01-18, gérard Calliet <gerard.calliet at pia-sofer.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>> Now customers demand debug. I'm in the beginning of evalution of this
>>> facility.
>>>
>>> For what I know, Adacore didn't give debug (in VMS style), and they say
>>> HP didn't "cooperate" on that. I'm wondering if there are been effort
>>> for that anywhere.
>>>
>> 
>> What's wrong with simply using gdb or are you saying that it wasn't
>> possible for you to build gdb for a VMS target ?
>
> I seriously doubt that gdb will work on VMS, unless someone have ported 
> gdb. And this requires a more complex form of porting than just getting 
> the compiler to accept the source, and the libraries to be available 
> with the right functions.
>

Huh ???

What do you think Adacore were using for their compiler toolchain on VMS ?

The question here is whether the Adacore gdb will support binaries
created using the normal VMS compilers as well as those created
using gcc.

That's something I simply don't know the answer to which is why
I suggested that Gerard setup a test with his existing GNAT Pro
compiler to find out.

Simon.

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