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From: rampil@cca.ucsf.edu (Ira Rampil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacNosy & "The Debugger"
Keywords: MPW C Source-level
Message-ID: <1477@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 88 23:35:14 GMT
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Reply-To: rampil@cca.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Ira Rampil)
Organization: Anesthesia Department, UCSF
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"The Debugger" is not actually an extension of Nosy (a static
disassembler), but rather a very nice, reasonably complete (at
last) debugging enviroment.  Like TMON, it comes in at boot time
or for particular applications.  Unlike TMON, DEBUGGER has a
very Mac-like windowing environment which is I think is quite
powerful and has saved my neck and my time many times.  It has
tables of all the system RECORD fields and can do user defined
ones as well.  It has trap and jump record, discipline and
programmable breakpoints etc.  It is not yet "source level"
unless you write in assembler, but it does use symbol tables
from MPW or Lightspeed to name procedures and globals.

In summary, I find it extremely useful and it was worth
the price (mailorder is $250-300).  The documents (yes, Jasik
finally has manuals), leave something to be desired, but I
understand Jasik is redoing them.

Ira Rampil
Dept of Anesthesia
UCSF

disclaimer: I know Jasik, and I'm still a satisfied customer. :^)