Thread: Debugging....How??

All right, can someone tell me how to debug my own codes...??
What is step in and step out...??

I kept pressing F11, but it opened up another window of codes which is not written by me......

I thought debugging is supposed to help us in checking our codes like how our codes run....??


Someone pls tell me how to use the debugger...

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Specifically what compiler / IDE are you using? I've rarely actually used the "debuggers" that come with my compilers, so I'm afraid I can't give you much advice if you're using anything other than a Borland system. The idea is just to give you more information about what's happening behind the scenes of your program to help you diagnose problems. Specifically how to do that, depends on the program. If you can't find what you're looking for here, you may find it useful to look in the documentation of your compiler.

Keep in mind that the debugger helps you find problems in your code that aren't picked up as errors by the compiler. If it's compiler errors you're trying to solve, the only thing you can do is to look at the error message given to you. You can look up the error code in your documentation, or look at the line on which the error occured and try to spot whatever typo you made.

Good luck.

Ohhh.....I'm using Miscrosoft Visual C++ 6.0 to write on codes on C. Hmmm......nope, I'm not using it to check my errors in my codes.....

I've several layers of nested loop structure in my codes, hence I need to see how and in what manner does the codes run......

Thanks for your quick reply.....hmmm.....are you able to give me more advice or how to use the debugger now...??

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'Step over' is stepping over a function.
'Step Into' is stepping into (go through) a function.
You can add 'watches' to view the contents of a variable while the program is running.
Before debugging to need to set a breakpoint somewhere in the code (so the code stops).

These are some generic things most debuggers have.

Using a million printf statements isn't going to help you much when you have no idea that your program has a buffer overflow error.

Oh...I think let me post my codes here and let you all see what's going wrong here...

Code:

j=0;
for (k=0; k<NumFeatureElement-1; k++){
for (j=0; j<Rows; j++){
	if (j == Rows)
	{fElementCountRE =0;
	fcElementCountRE =0;}
	if (table[j][0] == atof(UniqueFeatureElement[k]) ) 
 	{fElementCountRE += 1;}

	if (table[j][0] == atof(UniqueFeatureElement[k]) && table[j][Columns-1] == 0 )
	{fcElementCountRE +=1;}
	
	fErrorRE =  (float)fcElementCountRE/fElementCountRE*100;  //A formula to calculate something...
	//for (x=0; x<MAXVALUE; x++){
	fErrorArrayRE[0] = fErrorRE;
	//}
	//fErrorRE =0;

}//End For
//fElementCountRE =0;
//fcElementCountRE =0;
}//End For

Explanation to my codes: I've already created a dynamic 2-D table using Calloc(). I've a set of data being inserted into this 2-D array. These data include binary values like "0,1,2..."

What I intend to do here:

Code:

First : Compare all the data in first column with all the data in last column.
(E.g: if both are having 0, than increase value of fcElementCountRE by 1) 
After all the counting is done,  fErrorRE is calculated using the above formula. Next it is stored into array: fErrorArrayRE[0].

Code:

Second : Now the value for K should increase by 1, which means now I'm still comparing data of first column with last column, but now the condition is: if last columns is having value of "1", increase fcElementCountRE by 1.

Note: fcElementCountRE is used again, I intend to make it become zero first, by failed...

So, after the counting is done, formula is applied again and value is now stored into fErrorArrayRE[1] this time.

Summary: Count and calculate, then place the calculated values in fErrorArrayRE[x] accordingly......
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nvm.....above question solved....but still don't know how to use a debugger...

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