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--  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.

--  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;

package GNAT.Traceback.Symbolic is
pragma Elaborate_Body (Traceback.Symbolic);

   ------------------------
   -- Symbolic_Traceback --
   ------------------------

   function Symbolic_Traceback (Traceback : Tracebacks_Array) return String;
   --  Build a string containing a symbolic traceback of the given call chain.

   function Symbolic_Traceback (E : Exception_Occurrence) return String;
   --  Build a string containing a symbolic traceback of the given exception
   --  occurrence.

end GNAT.Traceback.Symbolic;