wrs@cmu-cs-wb1.ARPA (Walter Smith) (12/12/85)
For those who own Megamax C or those looking for a compiler...
I just called Megamax for some information on their new debugger. It will
be out in January (so they say), and is apparently like a multi-window
mouse-based dbx. That is, it operates on the source code level. It allows
single-stepping, breakpoints, all the traditional debugger things, but by C
statement rather than machine instruction. It understands C data structures
and let you print and set variables. One neat feature is a C interpreter
that lets you type in C statements for convenience in debugging. The price
is $99 direct from Megamax; they're not sure if they're going to sell it
through dealers (!).
I also learned that there was a 2.1b update (fixes to the fixes to 2.1...
the guy said they didn't do as much testing as they should have because they
didn't think they'd changed very much), and the next update (2.2?) will be
out in late January or early February. It will make the C more compatible
with the upcoming ANSI C standard.
Of course, I have no connection with Megamax except as a very satisfied user
of their development system.
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Walter Smith, CS undergraduate, Carnegie-Mellon University
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