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--  Run-time symbolic traceback support

--  The full capability is currently supported on the following targets:

--     HP-UX ia64
--     IRIX
--     GNU/Linux x86, x86_64, ia64
--     FreeBSD x86, x86_64
--     Solaris sparc and x86
--     Tru64
--     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), and load them 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.

--  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;
