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(Dr. Richard E. Hawkins) writes:

Do freestanding debuggers even exist anymore? My ancient Lattice MS-DOS compiler will, at the drop of a command-line switch, add a symbol table to its object code output, which can then be run by the companion symbolic debugger. No IDEs anywhere.

I wish I had a Windows compiler that could do that. I once had a nasty bug that made me actually try to set up the offending program so of wading through all its complexities without ever getting the program to compile and run, I chucked it all and went back to my tried-and-true method of inserting writes to a log file and compiling the whole thing with my standard makefile. I concluded that this ancient but venerable technique is still faster and easier than dealing with IDE bloatware, and stick with it to this day.

But a freestanding symbolic debugger would still be nice. Too bad fashion seems to have pbutted it by.

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