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-- --
-- GNAT RUN-TIME COMPONENTS --
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-- G N A T . T R A C E B A C K . S Y M B O L I C --
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-- S p e c --
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-- Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Ada Core Technologies, Inc. --
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-- Run-time symbolic traceback support
-- Note: this is only available on selected targets. Currently it is
-- supported on Sparc/Solaris, GNU/Linux, Windows NT, HP-UX, VMS and Tru64.
-- The routines provided in this package assume that your application has
-- been compiled with debugging information turned on, since this information
-- is used to build a symbolic traceback.
-- It is also in some cases necessary to invoke the binder
-- with -E switch (store the backtrace with exception occurence). Please
-- refer to gnatbind documentation for more information.
-- In order to retrieve symbolic information, functions in this package will
-- read on disk all the debug information of the executable file (found via
-- Argument (0), so any path information needed to read the executable file
-- need to be provided when launching the executable), and load then in
-- memory, causing a significant cpu and memory overhead.
-- On all platforms except VMS, this package is not intended to be used
-- within a shared library, symbolic tracebacks are only supported for the
-- main executable and not for shared libraries. You should consider using
-- gdb to obtain symbolic traceback in such cases.
-- On VMS, there is no restriction on using this facility with shared
-- libraries. However, the OS should be at least v7.3-1 and OS patch
-- VMS731_TRACE-V0100 must be applied in order to use this package.
with Ada.Exceptions; use Ada.Exceptions;
package GNAT.Traceback.Symbolic is
pragma Elaborate_Body (Traceback.Symbolic);
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-- Symbolic_Traceback --
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function Symbolic_Traceback (Traceback : Tracebacks_Array) return String;
-- Build a string containing a symbolic traceback of the given call chain
function Symbolic_Traceback (E : Exception_Occurrence) return String;
-- Build string containing symbolic traceback of given exception occurrence
end GNAT.Traceback.Symbolic;