bagpiper@oxy.edu (Michael Paul Hunter) (03/14/89)
I own the Zortech c++ compiler. Today I received a piece of advertisement from them advertising, among other things, a debugger. One of the claims is that it is "...the most sophisticated source level debugger now available." I have used codeview a tad and the Turbo Debugger quite a bit. Could somebody currently using this product compare it to one of the two. Actually after rereading this advertisement I guess the c++ debugger is not available yet, but is an enhancement of the c debugger...a little info about that might be useful. Also, is the c++ tools worth the $99 or are similar things available in the pd. Thank you for any comments and Thank you Mr. Bright for providing a useful c++ COMPILER for ms-dos! ps. Any rumors about whether or not Borland will get in the c++ compiler business? Mike Michael Hunter UUCP : ....{rutgers, ames}!cit-vax!oxy!bagpiper Box 241 ARPA : bagpiper@oxy.edu Occidental College Los Angeles, CA 90041 I also hack for MicroCosm, Inc.
s30804f@puukko.hut.fi (Harri Tapio Pasanen) (05/24/89)
Has anyone any experience using the Zortech's advertised symbolic debugger? How does it work with C++ compiler, and what version of the compiler does it require?
bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) (01/17/91)
In article <1991Jan11.013822.4214@aucs.AcadiaU.ca> 880716a@aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Dave Astels) writes:
/My program uses a BISON generated parser. It works fin when given small
/input files. However it locks up when given a large (realisticly sized)
/file. When I run it in the debugger (ZDB 2.0) it works wonderfully. No
/problems at all!
/Does anyone have any suggestions as to what could be causing this sort of
/behavior?
It is very probably an uninitialized variable being referenced. The variable
will start out at different values when run under DOS or under a debugger.
Unfortunately, these are one of the most difficult problems to track down.
I suggest putting a few printf's into your program at strategic points and
try and narrow down where the problem might be.