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Where this causes +ambiguity, <small>GDB</small> asks the user’s intent. +</p> +<p>The debugger will start in Ada mode if it detects an Ada main program. +As for other languages, it will enter Ada mode when stopped in a program that +was translated from an Ada source file. +</p> +<p>While in Ada mode, you may use ‘<tt>--</tt>’ for comments. This is useful +mostly for documenting command files. The standard <small>GDB</small> comment +(‘<samp>#</samp>’) still works at the beginning of a line in Ada mode, but not in the +middle (to allow based literals). +</p> + + + +</body> +</html> |