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From: rchampe@hubcap.clemson.edu (Richard Champeaux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SDB 5.0 question
Message-ID: <8123@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 90 19:30:40 GMT
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How about a watch window like Microsoft's CodeView or Borland's Turbo-C.
Did they put anything like that in?

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, a watch window is a window
displaying contents of variables that you specify.  It is updated cotinually.
It is very usefull when you are trying to locate where a variable takes on
the wrong value, or when doing things like debugging linked list routines.
When I'm stepping through a program that uses linked lists, I would much
rather have a window that is constantly displaying p->name and p->next than
to have to type "ps p->name" and "p p->next" (or use command line history)
every time I'm interested in their values.

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Rich Champeaux                       PLT:  The plotter device for the Amiga!
rchampe@hubcap.clemson.edu           Ask for it at your neighborhood FTP site!

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