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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:29:12 +0300
From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: ASIS?
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Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> parthaspanda22@gmail.com writes:
> 
>>If one were to need an API to fulfill all requirements by a
>>Debugger, Source Browser and a Syntax-aware editor from the IDE,
>>then would ASIS be it?
> 
> 
> The debugger does not need all the capabilities of ASIS; only line
> numbers and type descriptions.

This seems insufficient for debugging, see below.

> However, the answer to your question is probably yes: ASIS would
> provide all the information needed, and more, to the debugger, browser
> and editor, in a single interface.

I thought ASIS only has "high-level" information prior to the 
target-dependent object-code generation and linking. I think the 
debugger will need the link map, information about the stack frame 
layouts, record layouts, etc, which is not in the ASIS domain. Am I 
wrong?

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Niklas Holsti
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