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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
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To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: GDB 5.2 vs. Ada (and probably other unknown languages)
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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.