Subj : Re: Using Turbo Debugger and GetProcAddress
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Ed Mulroy [TeamB]
Date : Wed Dec 15 2004 11:03 pm

I have posted a message to
    borland.public.attachments
with a subject of
    Explicitly Loaded DLL Example

Please get it and play with it to hone your TD32 skills
using a trivial app where you've no additional problems
of looking for the bug in your code.  It's the old
"separation of variables" trick.  Solve the one problem
before getting to the ones involving your real code.

I was a bit puzzled when doing this as I've been using
C++ Builder instead of BC++ for 32 bit apps since about
'98.  I only am on a machine with BC++ on it because
my main machine is sick [now running Win95,
Pentium 1, 133MHz, 64M <groan> ].

TD32 will not step into the BC++ DLL without debug info
loaded.  When I built it with C++ Builder 4 (version 4 is
all that this machine can take) it would step in but opened
a CPU window so I was staring at assembly code (which
is just fine by me).

Once I had stepped through the line with LoadLibrary
on it I could then do a View|Module and load the
symbol table for the DLL.  With the source code in
front of me I could then place breakpoints on any line
of interest.

Just for info, when I click the menu three-dashes symbol
to the left of File in the TD32 menu it reports itself as
version 5.0.  If yours is an earlier version you might want
to go get a newer one here:

http://www.shorl.com/dusahysepryky
  or, in its long form
http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_cbuilder.html

However I do not think the version of TD32 is an issue here.

..  Ed

> Corey Sellers wrote in message
> news:41c0bffa$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> Thanks for you quick reply!
>
> The problem is before I call the function, the DLL isn't loaded
> so the debugger can't load the symbol table.  However, once
> I call the function, the debugger's status says "RUNNING",
> and I can't break into it (hitting Ctrl-Break doesn't do it).
> Once the function has completed, then I can get control
> again, but by then its too late.

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