Article View: comp.lang.modula2
Article #2658Re: Report on defect in M2 vs C (Was Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++)
From: Paul Menage
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 23:41
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 23:41
22 lines
1914 bytes
1914 bytes
In article <DH4CvE.2Bw@nntpa.cb.att.com>, ka@socrates.hr.att.com (Kenneth Almquist) writes: >> There is one exception here; most real-time programs have to interact >> - communicate - with things outside the scope of the system. Now >> these are not bug-free. Without writing a zillion lines of code to >> exactly nail down what guff they are sending over the interface, an >> interactive debugger in the receiving system IS essential - to debug >> the C or whatever that is producing the unchecked Crap that you're >> trying to digest. > >I've generally found that tracing the stuff that goes across the >interface works better than a debugger for this. Tracing provides a >complete scenario showing how the problem occurred so that you can >tell which system is at fault and how the problem occurred. Of course >if you have an interactive debugger but no tools to support tracing, >that does skew the comparison. Even better, have full tracing output _and_ an interactive debugger. Paul -- Paul Menage Magdalene College, Cambridge pbm1001@cam.ac.uk
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<46rqna$q1p@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!pbm1001References:
<44hcri$rsm@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> <DFyAJF.KpC@research.att.com> <DG1yzI.8Ln@mv.mv.com> <45cj8d$red@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <DG8y40.BMz@world.std.com> <KANZE.95Oct11123925@slsvgqt.lts.sel.alcatel.de> <460ibq$b0j@reuters2.mitre.org> <cspt.1144.30867CCE@giraffe.ru.ac.za> <4662pc$kmi@ubszh.fh.zh.ubs.com> <dewar.814190504@schonberg> <46kt1q$885@fred.netinfo.com.au> <DH4CvE.2Bw@nntpa.cb.att.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!pbm1001 From: pbm1001@cam.ac.uk (Paul Menage) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Report on defect in M2 vs C (Was Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++) Date: 27 Oct 1995 23:41:30 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <46rqna$q1p@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> References: <44hcri$rsm@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> <DFyAJF.KpC@research.att.com> <DG1yzI.8Ln@mv.mv.com> <45cj8d$red@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <DG8y40.BMz@world.std.com> <KANZE.95Oct11123925@slsvgqt.lts.sel.alcatel.de> <460ibq$b0j@reuters2.mitre.org> <cspt.1144.30867CCE@giraffe.ru.ac.za> <4662pc$kmi@ubszh.fh.zh.ubs.com> <dewar.814190504@schonberg> <46kt1q$885@fred.netinfo.com.au> <DH4CvE.2Bw@nntpa.cb.att.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk