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PROGRAMMING: NEW!! ICAT OS/2 Remote Debugger Site
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (targa01@ibm.net)
Sun Apr 27 15:48:43 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 27 Apr 1997 19:05:57 GMT
From: targa01@ibm.net
Reply-To: chris@austin.ibm.com
Reply-to: chris@austin.ibm.com
Submitted by: targa01@ibm.net
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NEW ICAT Remote Source Code Debugger for OS/2 Site Available now...
External Site: http://service.software.ibm.com/icat
There's great news for all of you OS/2 developers! We are proud to introduce a
new remote debugger for you to debug source-level code for your OS/2 Warp
device drivers, installable file system (IFS) binaries, and applications--all
to increase your productivity during debug time. This might sound familiar if
you subscribed to DevCon. We previously ran an article about ICAT when we
shipped the original debugger on DevCon 11 and 12 around the release of Warp
4.0 and Warp 4.0 Server SMP, but a lot has changed since then. Now we have an
external web site to deliver better service and updates.
ICAT Debugger Information
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ICAT has the familiar IPMD/ICSDEBUG interface with new enhancements to allow
remote debugging. This debugger is not a stand alone debug solution like IPMD.
It requires a two system setup, e.g. like the kernel debugger requires today.
ICAT enters the kernel as a super user so it can jump from process to process,
same as the kernel debugger, without having to restart the debugger each time
like IPMD for debugging. But the biggest feature of ICAT is the ability now to
debug your Device Drivers, IFSs and applications in source. Here is a list of
the some of the features ICAT delivers:
Features Include
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a. Source Code debugging of:
1. Device Drivers ( C, Assembly, GRADD and ADD )
2. IFS ( Installable File Systems )
3. Kernel & Subsystems
4. Applications
b. Compilers/Assemblers Currently Supported:
1. Visual Age C++ - ( HLL Debug Support )
2. ALP ( Assembly Language Processor ) - ( CodeView )
3. Microsoft C - ( CodeView )
4. MASM 5 and 6 - ( CodeView )
5. Watcom C++ ( Supported in DevCon 12 ) - ( CodeView Option Needed )
6. Metaware High C++ - ( CodeView )
c. Pentium I/O Breakpoint Support
d. MMX Register Support
e. Stack unwind across ring boundaries, thunks, 16 and 32 bit code.
f. Passthru window into the kernel debugger.
g. Many more feature not listed here and also fixes to the kernel
debugger for the following releases above.
Try it out an let us know what you think. Your feedback is what makes this
product better and is appreciated. If you would like to report problems, give
feedback, or request future enhancements you can use the feedback mechanism on
our home page.
Thank You,
OS/2 Development
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