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authorJoel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>2017-11-24 17:09:42 -0500
committerJoel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>2017-11-24 17:15:30 -0500
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(Ada) provide the exception message when hitting an exception catchpoint
This patch enhances the debugger to print the exception message, when available, as part of an exception catchpoint hit notification (both GDB/CLI and GDB/MI). For instance, with the following code... procedure A is begin raise Constraint_Error with "hello world"; end A; ... instead of printing... Catchpoint 1, CONSTRAINT_ERROR at 0x000000000040245c in a () at a.adb:3 ... it now prints: Catchpoint 1, CONSTRAINT_ERROR (hello world) at 0x000000000040245c in a () ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This enhancement requires runtime support. If not present, the debugger just behaves as before. In GDB/MI mode, if the exception message is available, it is provided as an extra field named "exception-message" in the catchpoint notification: *stopped,bkptno="1",[...],exception-name="CONSTRAINT_ERROR", exception-message="hello world",[...] gdb/ChangeLog: * ada-lang.c (ada_exception_message_1, ada_exception_message): New functions. (print_it_exception): If available, display the exception message as well. * NEWS: Document new feature. gdb/doc/ChangeLog: * gdb.texinfo (GDB/MI Ada Exception Information): Document new "exception-message" field. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: * gdb.ada/catch_ex.exp, gdb.ada/mi_catch_ex.exp, gdb.ada/mi_ex_cond.exp: Accept optional exception message in when hitting an exception catchpoint.
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variables that are to be set or unset from GDB. These variables
will affect the environment to be passed to the inferior.
+* When catching an Ada exception raised with a message, GDB now prints
+ the message in the catchpoint hit notification. In GDB/MI mode, that
+ information is provided as an extra field named "exception-message"
+ in the *stopped notification.
+
* New remote packets
QEnvironmentHexEncoded