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diff --git a/gcc/ada/g-trasym.ads b/gcc/ada/g-trasym.ads
index 0bb3509..3ff38b0 100644
--- a/gcc/ada/g-trasym.ads
+++ b/gcc/ada/g-trasym.ads
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
-- --
-- S p e c --
-- --
--- Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Ada Core Technologies, Inc. --
+-- Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Ada Core Technologies, Inc. --
-- --
-- GNAT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under --
-- terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Soft- --
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
-- 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 and Tru64.
+-- 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
@@ -46,12 +46,14 @@
-- need to be provided when launching the executable), and load then in
-- memory, causing a significant cpu and memory overhead.
--- 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.
+-- 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.
--- You should consider using off-line symbolic traceback instead, using
--- addr2line or gdb.
+-- 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;