From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id QAA05943; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:37:53 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA06519 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:37:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from inria.fr (macaque.inria.fr [128.93.8.158]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id i14Fbqv15801; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:37:52 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:38:00 +0100 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How useful do you find the OCaml debugger? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) Cc: caml-list@inria.fr To: Henri DF From: Damien Doligez In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <1CD1D336-5728-11D8-968C-00039310CAE8@inria.fr> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 debugger:01 damien:01 damien:01 ocamldebug:01 gdb:01 ocamldebug:01 debugger:01 bug:01 reproducible:01 bin:01 caml-bugs:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 doligez:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wednesday, February 4, 2004, at 11:36 AM, Henri Dubois-Ferriere wrote: >> I've found ocamldebug to be very painful to use, compared to, say, >> gdb. That's when it works at all. For reasons I don't really >> understand I've found that ocamldebug doesn't work very reliably, >> often showing the wrong line numbers or losing the connection to the >> debugged process. > > i have only used the debugger a few times, because each time i ran into > similar problems as those listed above. It would help if you guys could file proper bug reports (with specific and reproducible examples) on such problems. Please use < http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs >. -- Damien ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners