Catching exceptions in GDB

There's a problem running gdb from GNAT GPL 2011 (which works fine with programs compiled with GNAT GPL 2011) on programs compiled with GCC 4.6 on Max OS X Lion and possibly earlier; you can't catch exceptions as you'd expect:

(gdb) break exception
Unable to insert catchpoint. Try to start the program first.

Copying an XML document, with changes

I needed to modify an XML document (well, strictly an XMI document produced by ArgoUML). An XSLT stylesheet did the job.

Lines of code

Recently, tonyg asked on comp.lang.ada for a code counter. There were a couple of recommendations, including gnat metric; however, my favourite is this shell script: