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Enhancement to debugging facilities?

• Posted by JEFF ZEITLIN <jeff.zeitlin at EXECNET.COM> Mar 13, 1997
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I was working on a fairly complex program over the past couple
  of days (bad idea when you're down with the flu, but I needed
  something to do) and kept on hitting an error that was hell to
  track down.  It turned out to be fairly trivial, and I easily
  fixed it - but it was in a procedure that was called from
  several locations, and it was a logic error that caused flow
  to be directed into what amounts to my "errorexit" procedure.
  When I tried deskchecking the code, I couldn't reproduce the
  error.  When I finally solved it, I realized that an ex.err
  dump would have been helpful.

  Would it be possible or reasonable to have a procedure
  equivalent to abort() that would, if provided with a non-zero
  parameter, create an ex.err file?  Or, alternatively, modify
  abort() to do so, possibly via a second parameter or setting a
  pragma?

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Jeff Zeitlin                                      jeff.zeitlin at execnet.com
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