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From: cs326ad@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Zortech C++ compatability
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Date: 5 May 90 13:08:00 GMT
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Nf-From: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs326ad    May  5 08:08:00 1990


I must include my two cents here.....

I recently completed a small front end pascal compiler for class using
Zortech's C++ and ran into several problems with the debugger.  As a whole,
the program and all modules were 2500+ lines.  I went to debug a certain
problem (actually several), and had mixed results.  At one point, I was
viewing the C++ code that I was using, and tried to move down the program
listing to set a break point at a certain case label, and I ran into all
assembled code....Yes! all the code after a certain point was assembly.
In fact, after a certain point, I couldn't move any further down the program
listing.  The source file was around 1500 lines (the parser file), and I
could only get to around line 500, when I really needed to be at line
~1300.  It helped for several other small minor bugs, but I never did find
the problem with this one.  It seems that a certain member of a structure was
getting redefined somewhere along the parsing, and I could not find it 
anywhere, and that was when I became somewhat disenchanted with the debugger.
I suppose someone could flame me for RTFM, but I checked over all the
relevant parts in the manual, and could come up with no logical explanation
for what happened.  After the semester is over, I plan to take up the problem
with Zortech......


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=    Mark Allender                               University of Illinois   =
=    cs326ad@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu                    Urbana, Illinois         =
=    ma20449@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu                                             =
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