Re: Ok sorry, it is just a book gives no feedback.

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <ubstiozon.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>,
  Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
>
> > I supposed it might be annoying to some people, but I detest
> > that style of debugging.  I much prefer to place a breakpoint
> > (even a conditional breakpoint) that will examine the data in
> > question rather than change the source.
>
> Until I started writing programs for Win95, I agreed with Ted. But
> even the GNAT debugger can't properly handle breakpoints in a window
> procedure under Win95 (WinNT is only a little better). So now I'm used
> to Text_IO.Put_Line for debugging.

I think you meant "Larry". Generally, I'd agree with him. But I
currently find myself in a situation where I don't have access to
source-level debugging on our target machines. Plus, I'm doing a lot of
real-time work, which means I get a lot of "timing bugs". Timing bugs
can't really be debugged using intrusive methods like a debugger. So I'm
actually getting pretty good at debugging via other such means. But one
can always become attached to one's faithful tools. I'll sure miss
Windview on my next project!

--
T.E.D.

http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html


Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/