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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Best C compiler |
| Date | 2020-03-08 13:39 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87h7yzynhd.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes: > On Saturday, 7 March 2020 17:50:23 UTC, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> writes: <cut> >> > Another alternative, that doesn't generate as long of an output is to >> > instrument the code to save the values of x in an array being used as a >> > circular buffer. Then when x takes on the bad value, you can look at >> > just the recent history of the changes. >> >> But I imagine this is an argument for using an interactive debugger >> since this is the sort of thing they should do, either through a "show >> last 20 values of x at this watch point" or by providing an embedded >> scripting language so you can do what you like to store a process data >> coming from the instrumented program. >> > If you go down the route of writing scripts for the debugger, then you > get bugs in the scripts. You make it sound inevitable. You may get bugs, and when you do they may be trivial and immediately obvious. You are not, I hope, advocating against optional functionality on the grounds that it can go wrong. -- Ben.
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