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From: t-joels@microsoft.UUCP (Avram SPOLSKY)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: MSC 6.0 does not execute lines of C code
Keywords: MSC 6.0 C Codeview
Message-ID: <56311@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 90 22:23:31 GMT
References: <1990Aug3.172039.250@ultra.com>
Reply-To: t-joels@microsoft.UUCP (Avram SPOLSKY)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1990Aug3.172039.250@ultra.com> srini@ultra.com (S. Srinivasan) writes:
>
>    *stepping in Codeview simply jumps over the source line!
>

The source line may have been optimized away. Try turning off all
optimizations when debugging.

>    *cannot set breakpoint on source line in Codeview,
>     it beeps back!!
>

Same reason. I seem to remember that this is well documented...

Joel Spolsky
(disclaimer: I don't speak for anybody, and certainly not
for my employer).
spolsky@cs.yale.edu