<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 11, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Gail Zacharias wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">A fair amount. While the compiler support is pretty much there,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>what's left is the whole runtime aspect of it -- managing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>breakpoints, catching them, restarting, etc. And a UI, which for the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>command line version means just adding some commands, but could be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>much more interesting in the IDE.</span></blockquote><br></div><div>Given Gary's explanation </div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">the ability to map between points in a function's source code and corresponding points<br>in its machine code - is in place</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think a great starting point would be to add a "show source" button to the alternate console which would be enabled in case of an error. That button would open the source file and place the cursor to the code in question. Very handy...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
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