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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: GDB 5.2 vs. Ada (and probably other unknown languages)
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 14:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CB5FA8E.BBB64F59@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873cyhaubc.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>

Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> It seems that GDB (starting with 5.1.1 or so) can no longer debug
> programs written in languages unknown to it.  With previous GDB
> versions, you could at least set breakpoints, get backtraces, and
> examine most variables, although you had to take name mangling into
> account.
> 
> For example, if I try to set a breakpoint in an Ada program, I just
> get the error message "internal error - unimplemented function
> unk_lang_create_fundamental_type called."

That's bad.  GDB should not refuse to debug a source file just because
it doesn't know the language.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-11 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-31  2:46 Florian Weimer
2002-04-03  8:47 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-04-04 21:18   ` Florian Weimer
2002-04-04 21:27     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-11 14:17 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2002-04-11 14:28   ` Per Bothner
2002-04-21 10:50     ` Florian Weimer

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