sriram@alka.tcs.com (Sriram Srinivasah) (04/17/91)
Has anyone here tried out the Multiscope debugger? I would like to hear from someone who has debugged a crash (the kind that requires a cold boot), in a large DOS program (~350K). My personal favorite is Turbo Debugger, but the protection doesn't seem adequate ... the debugger catches the exception, but crashes itself. I was interested in finding out specifically about one of the features that they (Multiscope) advertise for, which is "Post Mortem debugging". Apparently, the debugger catches any stray pointers, and immediately dumps core, which you can examine later. How useful is this? While we are at it, how about BOUNDS-CHECKER from Nu-Mega Technologies? Thanx a lot for any pointers. Sriram (sriram@tcs.com)
gmurray@ibmpcug.co.uk (G Murray) (04/27/91)
Mention was made of a Post Mortem debugging facility. On larger (or not so larger) system it is common for the OS to provide a 'core dump' or similar when either the application or computer crashes. Especially when trying to debug programs that use pseudo-multitasking, I have often wished for this facility on the PC. Does anyone know of such a facility (in ROM perhaps) that will dump the processor state and memory to a disk file for later analysis? Graham Murray -- Automatic Disclaimer: The views expressed above are those of the author alone and may not represent the views of the IBM PC User Group. --