[DUG] I broke the D2006 debugger

Rohit Gupta r.gupta at xtra.co.nz
Tue Feb 14 17:14:45 NZDT 2006


John,

I dont know why you are complaining.  At least you have a debugger to 
break. :-)

  I can thoroughly recommend NOT getting maintenance for Delphi.

John Bird wrote:

>Well that does add something to the puzzle - as in the whole project only
>one unit shows the blue dots in the left, and that is the only one where the
>debugger stops with breakpoints.  However I can alter and recompile the
>offending unit(s) and the resulting program does reflect the changes, with
>or without blue dots.
>
>I tried opening other projects and rebuilding and they all show the blue
>dots.   So lets rephrase the question - what is the difference between the
>appearance of the dcu and other altered features in the program (which are
>working) and the blue dots and the debugger (which are not).
>
>Yes I have searched for other instances of the dcu files and have found
>none.
>
>John
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeremy North [mailto:jeremy.north at gmail.com] 
>Sent: Tuesday, 14 February 2006 11:16 a.m.
>To: johnkbird at paradise.net.nz; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
>Subject: Re: [DUG] I broke the D2006 debugger
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>Do you have Software Assurance John?
>
>This really isn't a good QC report because you haven't provided steps to
>reproduce.
>
>Does the unit when breakpoints are not triggered get the Blue dots in it. Do
>the blue dots appear in the correct locations. Add about 10 lines of
>whitespace in a function and see if the blue dots are still lined up
>correctly with the code in your unit.
>
>You might have an old DCU on your path that the compiler is finding before
>your modified unit. Have you done a system search for the unit name to make
>sure it isn't elsewhere on the system.
>
>On 2/14/06, John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
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>>I submitted this to BDN Quality Central Report #:  24858
>>
>>http://qc.borland.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=24858
>>(I presume this is the best place to go to)
>>
>>Any other suggestions welcome please - I am stuck!!
>>
>>John
>>
>>
>>Any Borland Techos reading this?
>>
>>I need help as I have lost already about 4 days trying to debug a 
>>complex routine.  There are no compile errors, it runs fine until it 
>>hits a range error somewhere (don't know where yet as I can't get any 
>>breakpoints to stop it in this unit).
>>
>>Hey the debugger does not work anymore!  Can someone suggest where 
>>further up the line I can submit this problem to? I am out for a 
>>while, later in the day I will resort to the D5 debugger.
>>
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