Much of MVS is written in a compiled language (PL/X and its predecessors), and I have spent the past 38 years making a living by debugging it using dumps.
Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> wrote on 02/01/2018 09:03:37 AM: > From: Charles Mills <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 02/02/2018 01:00 AM > Subject: Re: Fair comparison C vs HLASM > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> > > > The last time I used a dump to find bugs in a compiled program was > about 35 years ago. > > Right! I think if you are using a classic "core dump" to find logic > errors in a compiled language program then you are doing something wrong. > > To find an error in some big table or something, sure, but then the > arrangement of the compiled machine instructions should not matter. > > Charles > > > > On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 1:00 AM, Robin Vowels > <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... > > The last time I used a dump to find bugs in a compiled program was > about 35 years ago. > PL/I provides all the information required because it has debugging > facilities built in. >
