[arachne] Re: arachne Digest V2 #289

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On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:45:13 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:

> Good questions.  At present (very crude first efforts) it lengthens
> core.exe by a few K and the hit in free memory (that's far more important)
> is about 1K, however, that's on top of a 4K hit that seems to have
> resulted from the pre-parsing of all options -- which is necessary for
> this config.log thing to work anyway.

Yes, that's about what i thought.

>  Whether if ever ends up as
> standard equipment is questionable, but Michal and I are seriously
> considering the idea that there should be a special DEBUG version of
> the core that folks could use in place of the standard version for
> industrial strenth diagnostic purposes; it would have less free memory
> but other than that it would work exactly the same (apart from the
> diagnostics that it would perform of course).

Again we come up with the same problem: you'd have to make a
DEBUG version of every new core.

> Anyway, I've already found it invaluable since it makes it childs play
> to diagnose anything that's gone wrong with configuration.

Yes, I agree 110% with that!

I'd like to see it in every version.

> The output from this current session looks like this:

That is very clear!

I have been using QEDIT in a two-window setup to compare a
problem config with a known good one. With the windows set to
scroll in sync, it is easy enough to visually check them, until
something gets out of step.

At one stage in desparation I wrote a QBASIC program to read the
new config file line by line, and open the old one and search
through it for the line starting with the same word. If the lines
were not the same, it would print both the old and new version.
Then using the printout I could go in and alter the new config
file as needed.

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