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From:	Doug Stevens <Doug.Stevens?@tek.com>
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Subject:	Re: MSVC IDE - Where's the debugger?
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Date:	Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:05:11 GMT
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If MsDev is your system debugger, when the program crashes, MsDev will fire up
and indicate what function the crash occurred in, and what the call stack looked
like. In the registry key
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/AeDebug",
check the registry value "Debugger". It usually fires up Dr. Watson; edit it (if
it hasn't already been
modified by installing msdev) to

C:\ProgramFiles\DevStudio\SharedIDE\BIN\msdev.exe -p %ld -e %ld

(or whereever you have MsDev installed). Once this is done, you can also
right-click on processes in
the task manager, and select "Debug"; the debugger will then attach to the
running process (I use
this for debugging services).

Sometimes the debugger will ask you for the location of the source code when you
attach to running
processes; if the source code is not mounted with the same drive letter that it
had when the app was
compiled, you won't be able to do source-level debugging (I've never figured out
why MS doesn't
save the absolute path, rather than the path with the drive letter).

Paul Richards wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm moving over from DJGPP with Rhide to MS VC++ 6 and it's IDE.  In
> Rhide if your program crashed it tries to figure out which function it
> was in when it crashed.  How do I do this in MSVC?  Not that my programs
> ever crash though...
> --
> Paul Richards (AKA Pauldoo)
> mailto:paul AT dunvegan1 DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
> http://www.dunvegan1.demon.co.uk/paul/info.html

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