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 LAA07298; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:36:31 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA07395 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:36:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail3.epfl.ch (mail3.epfl.ch [128.178.50.19]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id i14AaTP01325 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:36:29 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 11185 invoked by uid 107); 4 Feb 2004 10:36:29 -0000 Received: from mailav2.epfl.ch (HELO mailav2) (128.178.50.191) by mail3.epfl.ch with SMTP; 4 Feb 2004 10:36:29 -0000 Received: From mail0.epfl.ch ([128.178.50.57]) by mailav2 (WebShield SMTP v4.5 MR1a); id 1075890764390; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:32:44 +0100 Received: from lcavpc41.epfl.ch (128.178.8.81) by mail0.epfl.ch (AngelmatoPhylax SMTP proxy); Wed, 04 Feb 2004 11:36:28 +0100 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:36:28 +0100 (CET) From: Henri Dubois-Ferriere X-X-Sender: henridf@lcavpc41.epfl.ch Reply-To: Henri DF To: donna+spam@cs.cmu.edu cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How useful do you find the OCaml debugger? In-Reply-To: <20040204101550.GA32187@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; henridf:01 lcavsun:01 caml-list:01 debugger:01 ocamldebug:01 gdb:01 ocamldebug:01 debugger:01 ocaml:01 henri:03 henri:03 debugged:04 epfl:05 similar:09 i've:09 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > 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. henri ------------------- 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