February 1988 - DEBUGGING ON THE 386

ARTICLES

DEBUGGING WITH THE 80386


by Franklin Grossman
The protected mode of the 80389 offers extended software I/O controls which were previously only available through hardware debuggers. Frank shows you how to use the 386's registers and other features to provide advanced debugging support.

A SERIAL PROTOCOL ANALYZER PROGRAM


by Craig Lindley
Craig's SPA offers a slick way to use your PC to visually monitor data flow and handshaking between serial devices.

COLUMNS

C CHEST


by Allen Holub
Allen talks about the process of storing and reclaiming program variables using configuration files, followed by a discussion of the merits of awk as a C text query engine.

STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING


by Kent Porter
Kent offers some methods for handling DOS critical errors in Turbo Pascal.

THE FORTH COLUMN


by Martin Tracy
Martin ruminates on the year that was in the Fourth estate, and closes with a discussion of how to deal with stream I/O.

REVIEWS

EXAMINING ROOM


coordinated by Ron Copeland
Products examined from the programmer's perspective. This month's selections include: The Norton Guides, XO-Shell, MASM 5.0, Soft-scope V2.55, and Checkmate.

FORUM

EDITORIAL


by Tyler Sperry

RUNNING LIGHT


by Tyler Sperry

ARCHIVES


LETTERS


by you

SWAINE'S FLAMES


by Michael Swaine

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