gutman@felix.UUCP (Andrew Gutman) (01/18/89)
Any one have any experience with any of these products ? They are debuggers tailored for 386s. I have a need to know if the products lived up to/exceeded expectations for debugging in a DOS environment; are they useful for tracking un-initialized and null pointers problems and other difficulties that present themselves in the DOS environment?
cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) (01/19/89)
In article <79284@felix.UUCP>, gutman@felix.UUCP (Andrew Gutman) writes: > Any one have any experience with any of these products ? > They are debuggers tailored for 386s. I have a need to > know if the products lived up to/exceeded expectations > for debugging in a DOS environment; are they useful for > tracking un-initialized and null pointers problems and other > difficulties that present themselves in the DOS environment? I'm using MagicCV as a way of getting around the 640K RAM limit of PCDOS. CodeView now runs in one 640K virtual machine, and my application run in another, and all my symbols are up in EMS memory. It works very reliably, and allows me to debug stuff that would otherwise be impossible, because of CodeView's size. -- Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer Disclaimer? You must be kidding! No company would hold opinions like mine!
john@stiatl.UUCP (John DeArmond) (01/19/89)
In article <79284@felix.UUCP> gutman@felix.UUCP (Andrew Gutman) writes: >Any one have any experience with any of these products ? >They are debuggers tailored for 386s. I have a need to >know if the products lived up to/exceeded expectations >for debugging in a DOS environment; are they useful for >tracking un-initialized and null pointers problems and other >difficulties that present themselves in the DOS environment? I've been using the Magic-CV for about 6months and Soft-Ice for perhaps 2. I'm well pleased with the products. They seem to work as advertised on my compaq 386. I have not had the occasion to track down a null pointer yet but from the docs, it appears fairly easy to do. My biggest use to date has been to debug an application that used ALL of available RAM and to break a copy-protection scheme. As impressive as the functioning is the tech support I've received. I found a bug in MCV that crashed my machine. I modemed a copy of the offending software to them and the next morning, they called with a DEBUG patch to fix the problem. Try THAT with MicroSloth. The only other comment is that the new turbo-c debugger seems to have most of the functionality of the Nu-Mega products. I'd look at both before committing time and money. john -- John De Armond, WD4OQC | "I can't drive 85!" Sales Technologies, Inc. Atlanta, GA | Sammy Hagar driving ...!gatech!stiatl!john | thru Atlanta!