fayne@tellab5.TELLABS.COM (Jeffrey Fayne) (02/07/90)
I seriously considering purchasing NuMega's 386 debugger, however
I have a few questions for anyone who has used this program:
1) Is it as powerful as the ads make it out to be ?
I'm particularly interested in it's 'back trace'
capability (will it allow you to step backwards
thru your code once a breakpoint is hit or will
it just show you how you got to the breakpoint?).
2) I understand the program is codeview compatable,
therefore it should be TurboDebugger compatible
as well. True or false ?
3) Talking to a sales type, he claims that there is
a beta version available that supports Plink86
symbol tables (however I believe he stated that just
the root is supported or is the beta version for the
overlays?) Is anyone using this beta version and if so
problems? As an alternative, I understand that SoftIce
is compatable with .RTLINK/PLUS, any recommendations as
far as switching linkers? I'm very happy with PLINK, but
if I find SoftIce 'invaluable', I may switch.
4) Ideally, I would eventually like to run SoftIce under
VM/386 (multitasker), is this possible? If not why not
and will it run under any other multitasker?
Any observations would be greatly appreciated.
Jeff
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