[comp.sys.mac.programmer] Anyone Have a can of Raid ?

shinberd@unioncs.UUCP (David Shinberg) (03/30/88)

I am in great need of a good debugger to use on a Mac II with MPW Pascal 2.0.
Since most of my experience comes from working on a VAX under VMS I have become
very used to a source level debugger.  Does such a beast exist for the Mac/MPW?

I am currently using MacsBug, which I find very awkward.  I particularly hate
the way it flips screens after each step command (even if I use s 10).  
One interesting thing did happen with MacsBug, when the Mac is in color mode
the background for the debugger display is light blue.  The other problem
I have with MacsBug is how to determine what memory location one of my
variables is assigned to.  At this point I have pretty much convinced myself
that it can't be easily done. I really wonder if this is the debugger that
everyone at apple uses?

Any information regarding which debbuger to use and why would be greatly 
appreciated.  If the response is great enough I will post a summary to the
net.  Please forgive me if this is an old topic. (on the other the Mac II is
new isn't it)

				Many Thanks
				Dave S

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garyb@hpmwtla.HP.COM (Gary Bringhurst) (04/06/88)

Yes, PLEASE!!!!  Somebody write a source-level debugger for MPW Pascal, with
MacApp (Object-Pascal) extensions.  You've got a ready buyer here.

Gary L. Bringhurst