On Friday, April 17, 2020 at 2:11:17 PM UTC-4, Rhodri James wrote: > On 17/04/2020 17:18, dc wrote: > > Maybe it isn't true for all IDE's or all languages. (I know SOMEONE > > will interject here, to argue for the sake of arguing). But when I > > worked with Groovy in Intellij about 5 years ago, there were times > > when the IDE was confused, during a debugging sessions. I don't > > remember the exact details, but that anomaly happened only with DEFed > > variables ; it didn't happen when the data type was specified. > > This is a general problem for IDEs, and type information isn't always > helpful. The number of times I have had to add useless bits of code to > cast something to (uint8_t *) because I want to see the bytes and the > IDE will not give up on trying to interpret them for me. > > And people wonder why I stick to gdb when at all possible :-) > > -- > Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
Never worked with it. Is it a debugger for compiled code, i.e. it steps through the executable while displaying the source? Or interpreted code? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
