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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);

   ------------------------
   -- Symbolic_Traceback --
   ------------------------

   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;