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diff --git a/gcc/ada/g-trasym.ads b/gcc/ada/g-trasym.ads index cd72be42ac3..47ce3b367de 100644 --- a/gcc/ada/g-trasym.ads +++ b/gcc/ada/g-trasym.ads @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ -- -- -- $Revision$ -- -- --- Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Ada Core Technologies, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (C) 1999-2002 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- -- @@ -35,11 +35,22 @@ -- 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, IRIX and Tru64. +-- supported on Sparc/Solaris, GNU/Linux, Windows NT, HP-UX and Tru64. -- 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. +-- +-- In order to retrieve symbolic information, functions in this package will +-- read on disk all the debug information of the current executable and load +-- them 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. +-- +-- You should consider using off-line symbolic traceback instead, using +-- addr2line or gdb. with Ada.Exceptions; use Ada.Exceptions; |