On 15-Aug-08, at 10:20 AM, der Mouse wrote:
at the very least, it makes some debugging *way* more easy.This is hearsay [...]Not at all. [...]Sorry, I may have used incorrect language. What I meant to say was that I had no first-hand experience confirming both of the points, namely debugging and profiling. Just to make that clear.No, that's correct use of "hearsay". I suspect gwoods misread it as "heresy" and responded on that basis (runner-up theory, that he was saying "it's not just hearsay now, because I have personal experience to cite"). Greg?
I don't think it was fair to call the first claim hearsay, and I certainly hope it wasn't meant to call it heresy either.
Even if one is not fully aware of the problem set, it should still be clear from a simple line count of the source code involved in managing dynamic-linked binaries in the debugger, or for that matter a line count of the code in the runtime link-loader, that it is in fact "*way* more easy" to debug static-linked binaries.
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