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From: sjw_nc@caen.engin.umich.edu (Scott J Wilderman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: dde and entry points
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Date: 27 May 90 22:50:11 GMT
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I have had nothing but trouble with dde and entry points, and
I am wondering if others have had the same problems.  I can not
understand the following things:

1. I can not set a break point on an entry point name.
2. I can not 'step' from a main program to an entry point - it's
treated as 'go'.
3. If I type 'break sub_name' or 'env sub_name\', where 
'sub_name' is the routine containing entry points, the active
environment gets set to the first statement after the last entry 
point.
                                                
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In general, I'm not sure I think OS 10's 'dde' is an improvement
over 9.7's 'debug'.  There are a few 'neat' features, but
in addition to introducing some bugs (on 10.1) that make things 
hell (all floating points less than 10**-5 print as 0. - what
a travesty), 'dde' removed some features of 'debug' that I used 
and liked have disappeared.  At least it's better than dbx.
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Scott Wilderman