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From: comeau@ditka.Chicago.COM (Greg Comeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: REVIEW:  Comeau C++ compiler
Keywords: programming, language, C++, compiler
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Date: 23 Apr 91 05:21:21 GMT
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In article <1991Apr18.203037.7171@oracle.com> jmarvin@oracle.com (John W. Marvin) writes:
>In article <7285@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> mr3@ukc.ac.uk (M.Rizzo) writes:
>>In article <36851@ditka.Chicago.COM> comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau) writes:
>>>In article <1991Apr12.001715.19397@oracle.com> jmarvin@oracle.com (John W. Marvin) writes:
>>>>I assume there is no C++ debugger w/ Comeau?
>>>
>>>That is currently correct, however it is worth noting that as we currently
>          ^^^^^^^^^
>All true.  However, I do not want to debug C++ using a C debugger,
>anymore than I want to debug C using an assembly debugger.

It's not quite like that at all.

Rememeber: C++ is a superset of C, therefore, most all things will
be exactly the same.  What your C debugger will be at a loss for
will be intimate details on stuff like class relationships.  We have
discussed this with customers and although both they and us are working
towards a resolution of the issue, in the interim, they have told us
that in most cases, they are not using overwhelingly compilcated
classes or not more that 2 levels of inheritance in most cases,
and hence they do not consider the situation alarming or unusable,
but instead just plain old annoying at times.  They also follow up
by mentiioning that they feel a few steps ahead of the game even after
pros - cons.

>Note:  Greg said "currently correct."  He may get my money yet!

Take you time.  But in the meantime, on a different subject,
there is this here bridge.... ;-)

- Greg
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