Re: Prototyped Procedures

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:25:33 -0330, RPower@xxxxxxxxxx <RPower@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As someone who once worked in the softwarehouse schema, I have to disagree
> with:
> > 2) Consumers only need the prototypes. They have no business looking
> at
> > the implementation in a properly designed interface.
> 
> If I'm debugging, I had better be able to see the source code of the
> modules I'm calling.
> 
> As a person creating a program with cutting edge technology, exactly why
> would I want you to be able to see the source code?  For that matter why
> would you want ot be debugging it?  That's what customer support is for
> isn't it?

I have been working with the record i/o "C" functions recently. In my
testing I was getting some error messages that had no relation to what
I was asking the function to do.  Turns out, I was filling an option
parameter with the incorrect value.    But I could not use the
debugger to find this bug because IBM does not provide the source code
to it C runtime function library.

-Steve