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Re: Ada and the "start" command
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 16:35:11 -0500
- Subject: Re: Ada and the "start" command
- References: <20050306213337.GA13156@nevyn.them.org>
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 04:33:37PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
> Do any of the gdb.ada tests pass for you, using a clean GDB tree? My
> impression is that the "start" command, upon which they all rely, can
> not possibly work in FSF GDB. There's ada_main_name, which correctly
> digs the name out of the executable, but it isn't hooked up to
> anything. So "start" always goes to "main".
>
> If the tests can't work in this tree, they should be disabled. I'm not
> sure what the plan for ada_main_name is.
Scratch the last sentence; I found the pending patch on gdb-patches. I
still do not like tests which will not yet pass being added to the
source tree.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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