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From: blubaugh@ucqais.uc.edu (Dwight Blubaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Lattice Debugger
Summary: I saw the Lattice debugger
Keywords: Source Level Debugger
Message-ID: <1483@ucqais.uc.edu>
Date: 5 Aug 88 05:24:51 GMT
References: <61642@sun.uucp> <340@richp1.UUCP> <586@sas.UUCP>
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In article <586@sas.UUCP>, toebes@sas.UUCP (John Toebes) writes:
> In article <340@richp1.UUCP> kjohn@richp1.UUCP (John K. Counsulatant) writes:
> >In article <61642@sun.uucp> cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
> >>On BIX Lattice said that they would be showing their source level debugger
> >>at AmiExpo in Chicago. Did anyone who went see it? If so how about a 
> >>paragraph describing it in broad strokes (user interface, etc) 
> >>--Chuck McManis
> >	Naw, Lattice lied :-).  I did not see any sort of SDB at LAttice's
> >	Booth ...
> >						KJohn
> We certainly did show a debugger to anyone who asked.  Lattice is not
> interested in marketing new products until they are ready.  We have a strong
> comittment to what is available now that the users can use and as such
> emphasized the current products.  As for comments on how the debugger,
> I would not be the one to make them (that would be biased :-) so you might
> ask some of those people who saw it.
> 
> /*---------------------All standard Disclaimers apply---------------------*/
> /*----Working for but not officially representing SAS or Lattice Inc.-----*/
> /*----John A. Toebes, VIII             usenet:...!mcnc!rti!sas!toebes-----*/
> /*------------------------------------------------------------------------*/


Well I saw the debugger ( I was nosey and asked ) and it looked pretty
good. I was impressed in its various modes of presentation of the source.
straight c
assembler
intermix of above two
Also impressive was the breakpoint capability. you could break after n
times past a break, break on variable changes (even register variables) and
other things I don't really remember. 
What Lattice was very insistent about was that they needed ideas and 
suggestions about what features people really need in a debugger.
I would say that I have found SDB unweildy with its window to front stuff 
that it does in single stepping mode. I have to reactivate my own 
windows every time SDB pops up for a hello message. 
  I didn't get a chance to ask Lattice about how their debugger will
work with the IFF pgtb stuff they presented at DEVCON. Both a source
level debugger and trace back capability could prove interesting.
I hope that Lattice get the debugger out by fall because I will switch back
to lattice C when they do.

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