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Source level debuggers: Experience from the design and implementation of chillscope

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Advanced Programming Environments

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 244))

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This paper is based on experience from the design and implementation of an interactive source level debugger as part of a programming environment for CHILL. The debugger is based on a variant of the event action breakpoint. By combining the ability to detect a rich repertoire of events, including events concerned with the interaction between concurrent processes, and a command language including the source language, a very powerful tool has been obtained. The paper describes the main features of the debugger and discusses some design decisions.

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  1. RUNIT The Computing Center of the University of Trondheim, N-7034, Trondheim-NTH, Norway

    Svein O. Hallsteinsen

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Reidar Conradi Tor M. Didriksen Dag H. Wanvik

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Hallsteinsen, S.O. (1987). Source level debuggers: Experience from the design and implementation of chillscope. In: Conradi, R., Didriksen, T.M., Wanvik, D.H. (eds) Advanced Programming Environments. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 244. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-17189-4_83

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