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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 8 Aug 1994 18:21:50 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 19:32:34 GMT
From: soder@inmic.se (Hakan Soderstrom)
Message-Id: <1994Aug8.193234.28645@sics.se>
Organization: Swedish Institute of Microelectronics, Kista
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Announce: itweak 2.2
Status: R
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
I am happy to announce the availability of release 2.2 of
itweak -- an interactive Icon debugger
WHAT IS ITWEAK?
'itweak' is an interactive debugging utility for the Icon programming
language. It is based on tweaking ucode files (.u1, .u2). Your program
is linked with a debugging run-time and off you go. You code, I tweak,
that's the simple idea.
The 'itweak' system provides you with many of the facilities you would
expect from an interactive debugger, including the ability to evaluate
a wide range of Icon expressions.
PREREQUISITES
'itweak' requires Icon 8.10 or higher. It is completely written in
Icon, and should be as portable as Icon itself.
NICE THINGS
The package comes with reasonable documentation and with a demo.
There is on-line help.
I also can't help mentioning that 'itweak' addresses a problem
mentioned in the Icon Analyst, Number 25, which happened to drop into
my mailbox the other day. The last article ("Local Identifiers")
describes how one may wipe out Icon functions. 'itweak' has a command
('info globals') which (among other things) checks if any of the
function identifiers has lost its initial value.
CATCHES
This is the first itweak release beyond the author's immediate
neighborhood. It has only been tested under Unix (SunOS 4.1.3).
ARCHIVE
The itweak distribution can be obtained by anonymous FTP from
the Icon Project FTP server as
cs.arizona.edu:/icon/contrib/itweak-2.2.tar.Z
The size is 116 kb. Unfortunately I don't have the bandwidth for
E-mail distribution.
SUPPORT?
Send bug reports, improvements, comments etc. to the address below.
There is no external funding for 'itweak', so I can't promise anything
except that I am also interested in making 'itweak' better.
Enjoy.
Hakan
The preferred E-mail address is the one below.
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