"Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > article I saw a term, "symbolic debugger", I had been wondering > about for a while. Google was of little help (to me, at least), and
Its a debugger that undestand symbols, in other words it can read the symbol table produced by a compiler/interpreter. Most debuggers nowadays are symbolic, but in the early days they weren't and you had to debug all code at the assembler/memory address level. If you want to have fun with that try loading a simple program into the DOS DEBUG command and stepping through it examining the memory image as you go., It is decidedly non symbolic! Or on Linux/Unix you may be able to use adb. adb is often using for debugging core dumps from programs that haven't been compiled with the -g debug flag or have had the symbol table 'strip'ed. > that the debugger I want to learn, WinPdb, is also a symbolic > debugger, but what's "symbolic" about it? Yes Python debuggers are all symbolic. They can understand your variable names etc so you can say break foo instead of break [0x25698567] HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
