In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
01/01/2007
at 02:17 PM, "Craddock, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I cannot think of ANYTHING where I would consider
>TEST to be superior.
I've run into cases where I had to drop back to TEST. I don't know
whether the issues have been resolved by now.
>Aside from the sheer time wasting effort in capturing and processing
>a dump, you can't just dynamically add control block formatters in
>an IPCS session.
Adding control block formatters is straightforward, and starting a new
IPCS session is no big deal.
>With an online debugger (XDC in this case) you can trace executing
>code a line at a time if you want, you can display registers and
>storage, you can map and format code and data areas... a whole bunch
>of things that you cannot do at all in a dump.
Of those things you listed, only one is restricted to a debugger; the
others can be done in IPCS. In fact, they routinely are done.
Now, symbol table access, watchpoints, ...
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