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From: sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner)
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Subject: Re: Converting MicroSoft C to Turbo C
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Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 12:22:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 25 12:22:50 1987
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In article <9797@duke.cs.duke.edu> gleicher@duke.UUCP (Michael Gleicher) writes:
>As a user of MSC 4.0, and a recent purchaser of Turbo C, I have to
>admit, I doubt I'll run MSC too much any more. True CodeView is nice,
>but being able to compile in a reasonable time (My hard disk is slow
>so the improvement is more than 4X for the program I'm working on). 
>is worth more than the debugger.

>I would think it would be possible to find a way of using TurboC with
>Codeview (or some such debugger). TurboC will put line numbers into
>the code. I haven't experimented with it. (any comments?)

I have played with it, Just compile with the -y option, link using
MicroSoft's linker, and the /codeview option, and you are off to
the races so to speak.  This doesn't give you the variable info,
but you have source level tracing/breakpoints, etc, Turbo's libraries
have Symbols in them (quite unlike MicroSoft's), though they are not
really that useful, I think they are just base addresses for branching,
and with the assembler listings in the code, it is not too hard to
figure out what machine locations to watch, to use the assembler style
watchpoints, instead of symbolic variables.  It is not perfect, but it
is pretty good (though I do like the Idea of a PC version of DBX).

	         Have Fun,

                      S. John Banner

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