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From: paul@gill.UUCP (Paul Nordstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: A question of style
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Date: 2 Aug 89 21:16:20 GMT
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Reply-To: paul@gill.UUCP (Paul Nordstrom)
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In article <GRUNWALD.89Jul31232111@flute.cs.uiuc.edu> grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>there is an advantage to using enums; when examining an enum value using
>G++, GDB will print the *name* of the enum, not just the value.
>
>this makes debugging a little easier, because you don't need to try to
>recall what the enum values mean.
>--
>Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois 		  (grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu)


The Oregon C++ debugger does this as well.

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Paul Nordstrom
Gill & Co., L.P.
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