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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) 1999-2012, AdaCore --
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-- Run-time symbolic traceback support
-- The full capability is currently supported on the following targets:
-- HP-UX ia64
-- GNU/Linux x86, x86_64, ia64
-- FreeBSD x86, x86_64
-- Solaris sparc and x86
-- OpenVMS Alpha and ia64
-- Windows
-- Note: on targets other than those listed above, a dummy implementation of
-- the body returns a series of LF separated strings of the form "0x..."
-- corresponding to the addresses.
-- 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.
-- If you want to retrieve tracebacks from exception occurrences, it is also
-- necessary to invoke the binder with -E switch. Please refer to the gnatbind
-- documentation for more information.
-- Note that it is also possible (and often recommended) to compute symbolic
-- traceback outside the program execution, which in addition allows you
-- to distribute the executable with no debug info:
--
-- - build your executable with debug info
-- - archive this executable
-- - strip a copy of the executable and distribute/deploy this version
-- - at run time, compute absolute traceback (-bargs -E) from your
-- executable and log it using Ada.Exceptions.Exception_Information
-- - off line, compute the symbolic traceback using the executable archived
-- with debug info and addr2line or gdb (using info line *<addr>) on the
-- absolute addresses logged by your application.
-- 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), and looked in the PATH if needed) or shared libraries using
-- OS facilities, and load them in memory, causing a significant cpu and
-- memory overhead.
-- Symbolic traceback from shared libraries is only supported for VMS, Windows
-- and GNU/Linux. On other targets symbolic tracebacks are only supported for
-- the main executable. 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.
-- On platforms where the full capability is not supported, function
-- Symbolic_Traceback return a list of addresses expressed as "0x..."
-- separated by line feed.
with Ada.Exceptions; use Ada.Exceptions;
package GNAT.Traceback.Symbolic is
pragma Elaborate_Body;
function Symbolic_Traceback (Traceback : Tracebacks_Array) return String;
-- Build a string containing a symbolic traceback of the given call chain.
-- Note: This procedure may be installed by Set_Trace_Decorator, to get a
-- symbolic traceback on all exceptions raised (see GNAT.Exception_Traces).
function Symbolic_Traceback (E : Exception_Occurrence) return String;
-- Build string containing symbolic traceback of given exception occurrence
end GNAT.Traceback.Symbolic;