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- From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: disabling breaks and steps in MacsBug
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 00:54:37 -0500
- Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation
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- References: <20JAN199317155439@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>
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- theeric@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Eric Hegstrom) writes:
- > There is an easy way to keep people from setting break points
- > and stepping through your code with MacsBug.
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- This is a cute approach, but it won't be more than a momentary annoyance to
- someone who really knows the Mac (& Macsbug) well. It's quite easy to break
- into the debugger after your application has been loaded but before it starts
- executing. At this point a user can step around your code that replaces the
- interrupt vectors, and proceed on as usual.
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- If the Mac can execute your code, someone with enough patience can step
- through it with Macsbug. Period. The best you can do is make the process as
- misleading as possible.
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- Amanda Walker
- InterCon Systems Corporation
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