Re: apologies, 3.1, mingw wishlist [okay to add new ctor to ConcreteProcess?]

[Adam Megacz <gcj@lists.megacz.com>]

Adam King <aking@dreammechanics.com> writes:
> add it, I'll have to in a couple of weeks.  Also, if you want to
> add in Runtime.exec( String[], String[], File ) (added in 1.3 I think )
> that would be great.

Sure, if it's okay with everybody else, I'll create another
constructor on ConcreteProcess that takes a current-working-directory
argument.



> > And, if I have time:
> >     - Stack traces

> This would be _very_ useful - while getting our code to compile, an 
> exception would be thrown but I didn't know from where.  I'd end up
> having to stick a bunch of printlns throughout the code to track
> down its cause.

Yeah, looking back (and with the help of others on the list who showed
me how easy it can be), I spent more time putting in printf()'s for
XWT than it would have taken to just write the stack trace code and be
done with it.


> > Is there anything else that I should consider? 

> Is there any way that GDB would/could be used for debugging?  

Hrm, I already use cygwin's GDB. It's not the best -- if your code
CALL's a NULL address you lose the stack, and the GUI is a bit lacking
-- but it's better than nothing.

 - a


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