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| <h5 class="subsubsection">15.4.7.1 Introduction</h5> |
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| The Ada mode of <span class="sc">gdb</span> supports a fairly large subset of Ada expression |
| syntax, with some extensions. |
| The philosophy behind the design of this subset is |
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| <li>That <span class="sc">gdb</span> should provide basic literals and access to operations for |
| arithmetic, dereferencing, field selection, indexing, and subprogram calls, |
| leaving more sophisticated computations to subprograms written into the |
| program (which therefore may be called from <span class="sc">gdb</span>). |
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| <li>That type safety and strict adherence to Ada language restrictions |
| are not particularly important to the <span class="sc">gdb</span> user. |
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| <li>That brevity is important to the <span class="sc">gdb</span> user. |
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| <p>Thus, for brevity, the debugger acts as if all names declared in |
| user-written packages are directly visible, even if they are not visible |
| according to Ada rules, thus making it unnecessary to fully qualify most |
| names with their packages, regardless of context. Where this causes |
| ambiguity, <span class="sc">gdb</span> asks the user's intent. |
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| <p>The debugger will start in Ada mode if it detects an Ada main program. |
| As for other languages, it will enter Ada mode when stopped in a program that |
| was translated from an Ada source file. |
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| <p>While in Ada mode, you may use `<tt>–</tt>' for comments. This is useful |
| mostly for documenting command files. The standard <span class="sc">gdb</span> comment |
| (‘<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>’) still works at the beginning of a line in Ada mode, but not in the |
| middle (to allow based literals). |
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| <p>The debugger supports limited overloading. Given a subprogram call in which |
| the function symbol has multiple definitions, it will use the number of |
| actual parameters and some information about their types to attempt to narrow |
| the set of definitions. It also makes very limited use of context, preferring |
| procedures to functions in the context of the <code>call</code> command, and |
| functions to procedures elsewhere. |
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