On 05/05/2011 05:46 PM, Dave Mason wrote:
On May 5, 2011, at 11:32, Toon Verwaest wrote:
This is totally unrelated to having an image; it's just a great debugger
implementation. 2 completely different things. No reason why this wouldn't work
for C; except for the fact that they didn't do it yet (those lazy bastards).
... and that it's an order of magnitude more difficult!
Yes, there are certainly other aspects of being image-based that are way cool,
but iterative code development and debugging is a big part of it.
(I am teaching a Java course right now with BlueJ, which is a cool environment (at least if you're
not used to an image-based system like Smalltalk). It provides a little UML diagram of your
classes, and you can create an object by clicking on the appropriate class, and inspect, and call
methods. Objects that you create appear on a "workbench". So I had build up a little
example with a few objects, found a bug, and edited the class, hit "compile" and *poof*
empty workbench. Yes, in Java they probably could have emulated the image, but it's a lot of work!)
../Dave
It's more difficult because it's not integrated yet. Suppose that this
was already integrated within GDB? Suppose GDB looked like a Smalltalk
debugger? Is there anything technical that stands in your way?
C is annoying for many other reasons, but not for that one.
