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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Bomb list
Message-ID: <4481@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 20 Apr 88 14:01:27 GMT
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Reply-To: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Summary: use for CHK, and a warning

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When debugging AL programs I sometimes generate a bad CHK on purpose
at a point in the program that should not be reached.  The six bombs
stand out on the screen...  Another trick is to use -1 (rather than
0) as the "invalid" pointer-offset value in variables.  Then if
you use an uninitialized such variable you get a tell-tale 3-bombs.

Note though that sometimes you'll get 2 or 3 crashes together, and the
number of bombs on the screen when the smoke clears will be the sum
of the numbers output by each crash.  SO if you get, say, 8 bombs
it _could_ really be 3+3+2.

A good debugger beats all of the above...

- Moshe Braner