On Thursday April 18 1996 at 04:02, Peter Fitzsimmons wrote to Coridon Henshaw:

 CH>> Well, I've come to the conclusion that Watcom's PM debugger is, to put
 CH>> it mildly, totally useless.

 PF> How so?

Well, it either locks the SIQ or traps on me, even with known good
programs.  It even locks the SIQ if the slave program is multithreaded and
I'm working with a non-message queue thread.  Go figure.

 PF> This is actually the best way to debug many PM programs (by running the
 PF> debugger in a full-screen text session).

If you have two monitors.  Otherwise, you'll never be able to see what you're doing.

I can't believe that I can't switch away from a full screen debugg session
while single steping a window procedure because the system will hang.  No
wonder PM programs tend to have more bugs in them than VIO ones - the
debuggers aren't worth a %^&*.

It looks like I'll just have to get FP17 to fix the SIQ problem and get
into the habit of not running much else while debugging. Sheesh.  This is
just like running Windows.

Thanks anyway.

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