23.13.1.2 Tracebacks From Exception Occurrences

Non-symbolic tracebacks are obtained by using the -E binder argument. The stack traceback is attached to the exception information string, and can be retrieved in an exception handler within the Ada program, by means of the Ada95 facilities defined in Ada.Exceptions. Here is a simple example:

     with Ada.Text_IO;
     with Ada.Exceptions;
     
     procedure STB is
     
        use Ada;
        use Ada.Exceptions;
     
        procedure P1 is
           K : Positive := 1;
        begin
           K := K - 1;
        exception
           when E : others =>
              Text_IO.Put_Line (Exception_Information (E));
        end P1;
     
        procedure P2 is
        begin
           P1;
        end P2;
     
     begin
        P2;
     end STB;

This program will output:

     $ stb
     
     Exception name: CONSTRAINT_ERROR
     Message: stb.adb:12
     Call stack traceback locations:
     0x4015e4 0x401633 0x401644 0x401461 0x4011c4 0x4011f1 0x77e892a4