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From: davis@wanginst.EDU (Franklin Davis)
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Subject: Re: Debugging and Lightspeed C
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Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 13:43:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  9 13:43:30 1987
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In article <808@jumbo.dec.com> brooks@jumbo.UUCP (Ken Brooks) writes:
>
>I'm using Lightspeed C, and I'm happy with all of it except the
>debugging.  Macsbug is just too low-level.  In particular, I really
>wish I had symbols for variables (globals at least!) and some level of
>coordination with the source.  Are there any debuggers out there,
>compatible with LSC, that provide this?  Or that in other ways improve
>upon Macsbug?  What do people recommend, and where can I get it?

I learned some interesting things about LSC and LSP at a talk here last
week by Michael Kahl, who single-handedly developed LSC. 

He's working on version 3.0, and that will have a full debugger,
somewhat in the style of LSP.  (For those who don't know, the two
products are entirely separate -- Michael developed LSC from scratch.
LSP apparently evolved from MacPascal.)  He will also rewrite a lot of
LSC to improve just about everything, it seems.

I asked him what debugger he uses, and he told me TMON.  The net
recently had good reports of "The Debugger," but I haven't seen it.

It was a fascinating talk, though he's constrained not to give away
the really juicy stuff.  Must be frustrating, eh Mike?

--Franklin
-- 
Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
  But yet the body is his book.              --John Donne

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