Today I made my first contribution to the Wikipedia.
I also learned how to dump a mapfile out of ps2ld (SnSystems' ultra nifty linker) and by using a friend's utility to analyze the output I tracked down and eliminated 233k of static allocations that didn't need to be there.
So, now I'm exploring the mysteries of tequila and anime.
Posted by matt at April 10, 2004 01:18 AMWell, ps2ld is a very good linker (it seems to be faster than the gcc linker and better at stripping dead code). The ProDG debugger is kind of odd, but I've found that it's very good for debugging things like memory trashing and the last couple of releases have fixed most of my major complaints.
By contrast, the Visual Studio Integration is the next best thing to stabbing yourself repeatedly in the eye with a sharp stick covered in broken glass. After trying it for a week I switched the build process over to using a nice Makefile that functions in a sane & predictable manner.
Incidentally, upgrading to .Net2003 fixed my complaints with that platform. Whatever version of .Net we were using before .Net2003 was unstable to the point of being unusable.
That was pretty much my experience with .NET 2002. At least two programmers on my team made special arrangements to get copies of Visual Studio 6 so that they wouldn't have to deal with .NET 2002's craptacular stability. Upgrade to 2003 as soon as you can.
Posted by: Matt at April 14, 2004 01:55 AM