Status of Ada support in GDB?

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>]

Trying to debug some Ada problems in GCC I noticed that GDB comes with
Ada support files but does not link them at all, they just seem to be
there for cosmetic :-(

I made some patches to link those files into GDB but still cannot
debug Ada.

So, I have two questions:
- are you interested in my fixes for compilation and/or adding Ada to
  the makefile?

- does anybody care at all about Ada support in GDB?  Since it's
  disabled, I don't see how anybody can use it...


FYI - I'm still fighting with unk_lang_create_fundamental_type, even
if I use set language ada:

$ /usr/src/aj/GDB/build/gdb/gdb ../../gnatmake 
A handler for the OS ABI "GNU/Linux" is not built into this configuration of GDB.  Attempting to continue with the default i386 settingsGNU gdb 2003-02-24-cvs
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This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"...
(gdb) r -c -I../rts -I. -I/cvs/gcc-hammer-3_3-branch/gcc/ada gnatchop --GCC="../../xgcc -B../../ -g      -gnatpg -gnata"
Starting program: /usr/src/aj/build/gcc/misc/gcc/gnatmake -c -I../rts -I. -I/cvs/gcc-hammer-3_3-branch/gcc/ada gnatchop --GCC="../../xgcc -B../../ -g      -gnatpg -gnata"
internal error - unimplemented function unk_lang_create_fundamental_type called.
(gdb) bt
internal error - unimplemented function unk_lang_create_fundamental_type called.
(gdb) set language 
The currently understood settings are:

local or auto    Automatic setting based on source file
ada              Use the Ada language
c                Use the C language
c++              Use the C++ language
asm              Use the Asm language
fortran          Use the Fortran language
java             Use the Java language
modula-2         Use the Modula-2 language
pascal           Use the Pascal language
scheme           Use the Scheme language
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/src/aj/build/gcc/misc/gcc/gnatmake -c -I../rts -I. -I/cvs/gcc-hammer-3_3-branch/gcc/ada gnatchop --GCC="../../xgcc -B../../ -g      -gnatpg -gnata"
internal error - unimplemented function unk_lang_create_fundamental_type called.
(gdb) show language 
The current source language is "ada".


Andreas
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 Andreas Jaeger
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