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- From: gyl.midroni@rose.com (gyl midroni)
- Subject: BPW debugger problems
- Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:42:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.064240.11662@rose.com>
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- Date Entered: 12-14-92 01:34
- Hi all,
-
- With great anticipation I started looking at the BP70 package I
- got this week. So far no problems with the DOS version, but I am
- having all sorts of trouble with the windows version:
-
- 1) The debugger won't recognize breakpoints on my application, even
- though the "messagebeeps" tell me that the code in those routines was
- called. This occurs only in one specific application, so probably
- the problem is me, not the debugger. HOwever, there is no such
- problem with the identical code on the TPW 1.5 debugger (allowing for
- different OWL units between versions)
-
- 2) Similarly, the debugger crashes unpredictably, even though the
- code it is running works fine without the debugger. Again, no such
- problem with the old debugger. These crashes are totally graceless,
- going to the dos prompt, or even rebooting the system without any
- error message or warning.
-
- 3) I've been randomly (seemingly) getting "Unknown PSP XXXX " where
- XXXX is a 4 or 5 digit number messages on running the debugger. I've
- never seen these in the old debugger. These messages, however, do not
- seem to indicate any serious problem, because the debugger does not
- crash. (right away, anyway)
-
- I'm pretty sure that the problem is my code... meaning some
- pointers are flying around loose (probably those damn PCHAR's...
- whoever invented the syntax for these should be shot. If I wanted
- stuff like that, I'd be using 'C' for programming), or values out of
- range, but why would these error cause so much damage with this
- debugger, but not with the one that came with TPW 1.5. At this point
- I have given up on BPW and returned to TPW 1.5, so any ideas would be
- helpful.
-
- Thanks, Gyl
- gyl.midroni@rose.com
-
-
-
- My thanks for any replies or suggests on how to go about
- localizing the problem. Remember, I can't seem to set breakpoints in
- this damn program!!
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