ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) (04/26/91)
I've been having some problems with MacsBug 6.2 on my LC. The Trace command seems rather slow, and occasionally hangs the machine. The slowness happens all the time, while the hanging occurs consistently at certain points in my program code: once when trying to step over a procedure call, the other an assignment to a global (A5-relative) variable. So help me there was nothing funny going on in the code in question; I actually stepped *into* the procedure call, just to make sure it wasn't doing something strange. I went all the way through every instruction and came out the other end without a hang. But any time I tried to step *over* the call to the same point-- it never got there. Another problem I kept encountering was trying to disassemble code resources with the help of ResEdit 2.1. I'd open the resource with ResEdit's generic hex editor, and break into MacsBug while holding down the mouse button over the menu bar, to make sure ResEdit was the current application. While in MacsBug, I'd release the mouse button, do an HD <ResType> to find the resource, and disassemble part of it. Then I'd resume ResEdit. Soon after, it would crash back to MacsBug. I finally went back to 6.2b3, and tracing is much snappier now. Also I don't get those hangs. And I think I've even cured the problem with ResEdit. Has anybody else found themselves in a similar predicament? I'm running the release 6.2 on my vintage II at work, and as far as I can tell it works fine on that machine. Lawrence D'Oliveiro fone: +64-71-562-889 Computer Services Dept fax: +64-71-384-066 University of Waikato electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz Hamilton, New Zealand 37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+12:00 Sign outside casino: "All we are saying, is give chance a piece."