Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 9th Dec 2002 04:57 UTC
The compiler suite coming for all SGI MIPS-based machines is one of the best optimized development tools for any platform. SGI has put many years of experience on the newest version of the series, MIPSpro 7.4, which we recently gave it a spin.
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> So, how can this work
>
> "which lets you modify the program at the source level while under the debugger
> and automagically continues running from the new source transparently"
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> If you compile your program at +O2, how can the debugger change that code without
> recompiling the whole thing?
Visual C++ has been doing this for a while with a feature called "edit and continue." And building on what Eugenia said, there are very few times when you have to track a bug down in release mode, but when that happens you can direct the compiler to add the debugging information to the release build until you have resolved the problem.
> We did not experience problems with the MIPSpro compiler suite, but what is really
> missing from the solution is a GUI IDE.
Judging from the ugliness of the screenshot, maybe it is better that they do not have an IDE... ;-)