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From: Ed Shirk <eshirk@parcplace.com>
Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better!
Date: 1997/01/27
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Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> 
> Ed wrote:
> 
> > >  What makes you
> > > think that the ``superb debugging facilities'' are going to be at the
> > > installation site?
> > Because they are <g> The walkback trace is also available in the runtime
> > system.
> 
> I don't buy that.
> Well, yes, technically, the debugging facilities may be present. But they
> may at well be not present - or would you let the end user correct the
> code?
> 

There are seperate facilities for logging the error which are in the
runtime system. The user is not able to modify code since the compiler
is not part of the runtime. But all the meta-information available in
the runtime program allows a very complete error log to be written. Very
often a developer is able to find and fix any problems from the
information in the log. 

A software producer might choose to not include it, since it does reveal
a lot of internal infomation about the software. But that is a choice
that can be made, depending on the situation.

   
> Regards,
> -Joachim
> 
> --
> Joachim Durchholz, Hans-Herold-Str. 25, D-91074 Herzogenaurach, GERMANY

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Ed Shirk
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