From: Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>
Cc: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] debugger backtracking/checkpoints
Date: 07 Nov 2001 21:29:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ly7kt272as.fsf@leia.mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0111071507340.34635-100000@arda.pair.com>
Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com> writes:
> > but disagree with the claim itself. Ocaml's debugger is in one respect
> > extremely advanced: it is a reversible debugger, which puts it way ahead
> > of most languages' debuggers, imperative or not. It is in one other
>
> Since the debugger doesn't work on msvc builds, I haven't used it
> much, but do people find the backtracking thing useful in everyday
> debugging?
i'm using it extensively:
- trying to understand where a bug comes from using logs
- when the bug is more localised i debug at the location and find out what's
wrong going back and forth inspecting variables until the precise pb is
localised.
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Pixel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-07 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-07 19:19 [Caml-list] Re: Debuggers (was Jihad) Krishnaswami, Neel
2001-11-07 19:51 ` [Caml-list] Re: Debuggers Eric Newhuis
2001-11-07 20:12 ` [Caml-list] debugger backtracking/checkpoints Chris Hecker
2001-11-07 20:29 ` Pixel [this message]
2001-11-08 15:14 ` Thorsten Ohl
2001-11-08 18:04 ` Christophe Raffalli
2001-11-09 9:51 ` Jerome Vouillon
2001-11-10 13:39 ` Mattias Waldau
2001-11-10 14:41 ` Dmitry Bely
2001-11-12 18:37 ` Chris Hecker
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