That deepends on what you mean by debugging facilities. PL/I has features bthat help in debugging, but a good debugger has a lot more.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf of Robin Vowels <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2018 4:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Fair comparison C vs HLASM From: "Jon Perryman" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2018 1:49 AM > On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 1:00 AM, Robin Vowels <[email protected]> > wrote: > > From: "Keith Moe" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:08 AM > >>> Keith Moe wrote: > >>> One of the downsides to such great optimization >>> is the added difficulty in debugging. > >> Robin Vowels wrote: >> Such optimisations are rarely requested >> during debugging, when all the facilities of the >> compiler - such as subscript bounds checking,> check for uninitialized >> variables, etc, are >> employed. > > > Keith is talking about dump analysis. Perhaps. But even if he was, the link map and assembly listing deals with that issue. However, as I said, optimising is not usually requested during debugging. > Think of optimization as a chaotic programmer. The stronger the > optimization, the more chaos. > The best optimization will often make following the machine logic very > difficult. 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. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://secure-web.cisco.com/1T7auVlKJl3jtYyELTghGHKTSIY3lXyMMtMtr3d2gHlR0l9iDo5ZzNRe51Z0RiEeP4Khaka3FYceH5wm12Pe510sxM1FOFc4Ajx-yibc57VzC7USfuBQRxdr-IFVFS8n2rR8TfcQo-Y83g8QIX57qnwohnoFW0gCYc_UKSMqI7oiph-UA-wDrykmss_f5uOXsoN77PaB-kP5g3dwiBHGyt7qUKbJbrJaaA26lvlAiW5KCfzY4FstGBP-ac0nxvUV0MyuOpF50a2Oc_UOsEFkJ4-ToDFJTM90dGjZZkgPhZqeweThdWUVgLScfXHEMsaxOIZ4VABWTfcpvxYL0qOxTQi0wkgl7x0H35OpbfWnZ4oHZNORiSTuyCrKkB2flarP1GSID3b_RS6DtioTHkcODFz9j_9xTge6IgjHVYF1Lhr3yJQubzckxfTeVtvYhgt3j/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.avast.com%2Fantivirus
