sorrow@oak.circa.ufl.edu (06/14/91)
Has anyone had experience using Soft-ICE or BoundsChecker by Nu-Mega technologies. They promise the world (memory write protection, etc.) and look real good, and even have a money back guarantee, but... Brian /* Brian Hook -- MS-DOS Programmer for Contract ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Seamus, that's my dog...I saw her today at the reception...sorry, sixTEEN inches....better save the women and children first...but this one goes to 11! ..anymore of that plutonium nyborg?....there can be only ONE!....like a finger pointing to the moon....ease the seat back...one day closer to death */
ekalenda@cup.portal.com (Edward John Kalenda) (06/15/91)
>Has anyone had experience using Soft-ICE or BoundsChecker by Nu-Mega >technologies. They promise the world (memory write protection, etc.) >and look real good, and even have a money back guarantee, but... I've used Soft-ICE extensively. It's the only thing I've tried that has let me debug TSRs, device drivers, and ROM BIOS bugs. The latest version is very similar to CodeView in terms of interface, though it doesn't support the mouse. The source level debugging and reading of debug info from the .EXE are really nice. I haven't used BoundsChecker yet so I can't comment on it. The biggest hassle about Soft-ICE is that I can't use other 386 Control Programs like QEMM-386 and some disk cache and RAM disk programs don't co-exist in extended memory correctly when Soft-ICE is loaded. The programs which use expanded memory do seem to work and Soft-ICE includes a built-in EMS emulator. Ed ekalenda@cup.portal.com
rclark@concour.cs.concordia.ca (CLARK richard) (06/15/91)
In article <43307@cup.portal.com> ekalenda@cup.portal.com (Edward John Kalenda) writes: > >I haven't used BoundsChecker yet so I can't comment on it. I haven't used it either, but it received a "Best of 1990" Award from PC Magazine. (PC Magazine, January 15, 1991). In a brief review in that issue, Salvatore P. Ricciardi states : (this is an excerpt ) The 80386 and 80486 have spawned a number of programs dedicated to making use of their superior capabilities. If you're a programmer, the [price omitted] Bounds Checker may prove to be the one dearest to your heart. Bounds-Checker helps you find memory overwrites - bugs in your code ... When an out-of-bounds access occurs, Bounds-Checker flags it immediately and pops up a screen display pinpointing the line in your program that caused the problems... You can add ... to the exception file to that lists these "valid" accesses. ... If you're developing DOS software on a 286, Bounds-Checker is your reason to upgrade. The program received a full review in PC Magazine, July 1990, page 48. -- rick clark (rclark@concour.cs.concordia.ca) Concordia University, Montreal.
pvr@wang.com (Peter Reilley) (06/19/91)
sorrow@oak.circa.ufl.edu writes: >Has anyone had experience using Soft-ICE or BoundsChecker by Nu-Mega >technologies. They promise the world (memory write protection, etc.) >and look real good, and even have a money back guarantee, but... I have used Soft-ICE to debug a TSR and found it to be excellent. It helped me find bugs that would have been hopelessly hidden without it. -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Peter Reilley ..... pvr@wang.com <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Well, that about says it.