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  • Subject: AS/SET debug - where is it now?
  • From: "Bernard Burchell" <burchelb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 19:40:58 +1100

Many years ago there was a tool that allowed you to do source debug on
AS/SET programs.  I can't remember what it was called, but you had to run
some special compile option to generate a field / statement x-ref to allow
it to work.  Ironically the debugger had a lot of bugs in it (and often
couldn't find the field that you were trying to display), but the
functionality of it was quite good.

Unfortunately the programs behind it had no observability so when the time
came to migrate to a RISC machine the product wouldn't work.

Does anyone know what's happened with this tool or what the rationale was
behind not bringing it to the RISC platform?  Currently we are confined to
using STRISDB on the RPG source.   I don't expect a code generator to create
the most readable of programs, and in theory you are not supposed to look at
the generated code anyway.  But often you can only see three code lines per
screen (from a thousand-line subroutine) and that doesn't make our jobs
easy!

Bernard Burchell

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