Subj : Re: BCC 5.02 Debugging Frustrations
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Jeff Kish <jeff.kish@mro.com>
Date : Mon Jul 21 2003 10:44 am

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:39:23 -0600, "BH" <bohiggy@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Anybody have solutions to these intermittent and frustrating problems when
>debugging with BC++5.02?  Am I missing something or do others bump into
>these things too?
>
>1) At times, inspection of an object only shows data from the "highest"
>object in the hierarchy...i.e. C is derived from B, and B is derived from A,
>and when I inspect C, I only see data from A.
>
>2) Sometimes there are no "gutter glyphs" -- no "green arrow" indicators in
>left margin showing that a breakpoint is possible.  If  I try to put a
>breakpoint in these areas it is invalid.   This happens occasionally with
>newly compiled sections of code within a file, and sometimes with entire
>*.cpp files.
>
>These things happen when all "turn debugging on" switches I'm aware of are
>switched on.  My caveman solution is to holler, then remove the intermediate
>build files (*.ild, *.ilc, *.ilf, *.tds, etc), then cross my fingers and
>rebuild, which doesn't always work (maybe I'm not hollering the right
>thing...).  There's got to be a better way.
>
>Thanks,
>
>BH
>
Make sure you turn of register variables and all optimizations.
HTH
Jeff Kish

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