Hi All!
I have been having a problem for a long, long time when
developing/debugging code which is included in a *package* and which
contains *generics*.
It took me years :'(, but I finally figured out what I was doing so that
I could cause the issue to appear consistently. :-[
My usual debugging process is:
1. Edit the library code
2. Compile/Run
3. Debug.
My current insight is:
What would happen was that changes made to the library code would
compile, but not be included in the code which specializes the generic
item. When I entered the debugger, I could see the newly changed code,
but single-stepping *ignored* my changes. If I let the program run
without debugging, the resulting behavior was the *same as it was before
the edit*.
I have a work around for this (when I remember to use it):
1. Edit the library code
2. Compile the package
3. Use *Run | **Cleanup and build ...*
4. Debug
TL;DR Library packages which declare generics do compile, but do not
get included in the code that specializes them unless I "Cleanup and
build" the whole program. (Workable, but much *slower* than programs
without generics).
I searched the bug tracker, but did not see anything resembling this
problem. I would submit a bug report but I'm not sure whether this is
an IDE problem, a package problem or a compiler/linker problem. Would
someone more familiar with this part of the architecture give me pointers?
Thanks,
Don Ziesig
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