Re: New Ada failure

[Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>]

Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:09:52 -0500
> > From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
> >
> > Ada.Exceptions needs to be compiled with debug information and not
> > stripped, so if you strip, you will definitely disable this lookup
> >
> > > I think the problem is that you're using
> > > lookup_symbol; isn't lookup_minimal_symbol sufficient?
> > Wouldn't really help, since once we break on this routine,
> > we look at its arguments and local variables, so we really
> > need full debug information for this routine. At least
> > that's my understanding.
>
> But wouldn't it be useful to be able to catch exceptions, or at least
> know that an exception was raised, even if you can't look at its
> details?

Sure, but you can do so fine if you build the library correctly,
which means not removing debugging information for this unit!
Not clear it is worth extra work to deal with misconfigured libraries.
> Mark