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Re: Breaking outside of the sources
- To: Laurent Duperval <lduperval at microcelli5 dot com>
- Subject: Re: Breaking outside of the sources
- From: Keith Seitz <keiths at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:47:45 -0700 (PDT)
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Laurent Duperval wrote:
> Not really. Often, breaking in system libraries doesn't provide interesting
> feedback. If I interrupt the program, most of the time I'm not interested in
> knowing that I was in poll(), select() or other sytem calls. But I am
> interested in knowing in which part of my code the poll(), select()... was
> called. Most of the time it can be done using the stacktrace but for new
> users (especially) it adds an unwanted (unneeded?) level of complexity.
Oh, I see. Well, this is part of the ropes, though. Debuggers are not
tools designed for novices. They are designed for the serious (if not
professional) programmer/engineer.
> I think (I dunno, I haven't used them in a while) that's the way MS
> debuggers work.
Hmm. Been a few months since I used VisualStudio, but I would guess that
all it does is change the debugger's stack frame. You're still in the system
call.
The only way for the debugger to stop your program outside a system
library would be for it to have a lot of intimate knowledge of the
program and all of the system libraries. It would need to step you out of the
system call, but it could not do this with, for example, any blocking
system call.
Keith