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  1. Xref: sparky comp.unix.programmer:4401 comp.lang.c:12634 comp.arch:9010
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!!bsullivn
  3. From: bsullivn@sc.sni.ie (Bryan O'Sullivan)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.c,comp.arch
  5. Subject: Re: What would you like in a debugger?
  6. Message-ID: <158@sc.sni.ie>
  7. Date: 17 Aug 92 09:32:34 GMT
  8. Article-I.D.: sc.158
  9. References: <1992Aug16.165055.19638@zooid.guild.org>
  10. Reply-To: bryan@sc.sni.ie
  11. Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf Software Development Centre, Dublin
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  17. ross@zooid.guild.org (Ross Ridge) writes:
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  19. :Perhaps people are already using their debuggers to trace problems
  20. :efficiently.  Nah... since you can't do that, how could any one else?
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  22. In my mind, running out of CPU quota when tracing a variable within dbx
  23. does not constitute efficiency.  Maybe we are operating on different
  24. interpretations of the word.
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  26.     -- Bryan
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  29. Bryan O'Sullivan                                             +353-1-767551 x225
  30. Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG                          bryan@sc.sni.ie
  31. Software Development Centre                    "Theory like mist on eyeglasses.
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