[DUG] Find the currently executing source line

Rohit Gupta rohit at cfl.co.nz
Mon Jul 16 13:28:54 NZST 2007


Thats because you have paused in the middle of those dlls.  If you have 
debugging enable din your source, then I would expect F8 to stop in your 
code.

Steve Peacocke wrote:
> OK, there are two Stack windows.
>
> 1. The CPU Stack contains a list of two columns of 4 hex numbers, and
> a column of for characters. Not a lot to make sense in there.
>
> 2. The Call stack shows a DLL and the kernal32.dll. Steping though
> those, it changes. For example, I now have two QUARTZ.dll files and
> the kernal32.dll
>
> Anyone make sense of that?
>
> Steve
>
> On 13/07/07, Conor Boyd <Conor.Boyd at trimble.co.nz> wrote:
>> At the very least, you should be able to look at the Stack Trace window,
>> and look down the stack until you find some of your own code.
>>
>> Once you find the "top" of your own code, then you should be able to
>> work out where you want to put your breakpoint.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Conor
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
>> On Behalf Of Steve Peacocke
>>
>> Good afternoon All,
>>
>> I'm trying to do something rather unusual here with Delphi. Instead of
>> tracing code one step at a time, I want to pause the code when I see
>> that a certain error has occurred and ask delphi to show me the source
>> line that its currently executing. The program is still running in the
>> background, so I press pause. It then always loads the CPU window
>> (meaning absolutely nothing to me) and when i try to "trace until the
>> next source line", it comes up with the following error...
>>
>> ---------------------------
>> Debugger Exception Notification
>> ---------------------------
>> Project <myname>.exe raised exception class EPrivilege with message
>> 'Privileged instruction'.
>> ---------------------------
>> Break   Continue   Help
>> ---------------------------
>>
>> Break stops at that same line in the CPU window, Continue shows the
>> error in a message box; and help, well I haven't tried that but my guess
>> is that it doesn't, help that is.
>>
>> Can anyone help with how I can see what actual source code line the
>> application is processing?
>>
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