> Elizabeth D Rather <erather_at_forth.com> writes
> in response to Bob Dickow mailto:dickow_at_uidaho.edu:
> >
> > I'd love to see it (singlestep) expanded to allow such things as:
> >
> > Skipping over the next word without execution
>
> What about its effects on the stack, variables, etc.?
>
Clearly the person running the debugger needs to account for
these factors. However, the use of this feature would allow you
to bypass a word that you *know* will crash the system, but you
know what its output is meant to be, so you skip the instruction,
tweek the stack values, etc., and go on with the program. This is
perhaps a convenience, but it also saves time.

I am a firm believer that a solid debugger is a tool that is worth
plenty in program development time, despite forth's interactivity.

Bob D

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Received on Mon Apr 10 2000 - 12:41:06 PDT