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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: Elfdll relay debugging
From:       Bertho Stultiens <bertho () panter ! soci ! aau ! dk>
Date:       1999-08-31 20:08:09
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Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > What is wrong with a Windows API tracer called wtrace or whatever,
> > that works like strace and truss, and could trace even the
> > binaries of WineLib applications that have no debug info?
> 
> That's not what I meant.  Of course a relay debugger in some form
> can be useful even while you have a debugger.  It is just that to
> have a not-really-essential debugging aid in an enviroment that
> doesn't work *at all* at the moment anyway (WineLib on non-Intel)
> doesn't seem IMHO to be a good reason to add yet another change on
> top of something that already has the problem that it tries to change
> too many things at the same time.
> 
> At a later point, when some kind of elfdlls are in, and when WineLib
> on non-Intel actually works, it will still be soon enough to switch
> the relay debugging mechanism if necessary to get it working there.

Ahum, so basically you say:

Don't bother to make the code cleaner while we have a chance, but rather
reimplement proven non-portabilities and hope that we remember how to
fix them later.

Greetings Bertho



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