RE: Debug Mode.

["Mangavalli, Ramanujam" <RamM@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, if the program is in debug mode, I want to send certain messages into
the job log. Say some kind of performance information/SQL Statements/etc...


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@klements.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 12:03 PM
To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: Re: Debug Mode.


On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Mangavalli, Ramanujam wrote:
>
> Can someone tell me how to retrieve the debug status of a program at run
> time? I would like to know if the program is being run in debug mode.
>

This seems like a bad idea.

If a program can determine if it's being debugged, then it could behave
differently under the debugger than it would in production.

This means that bugs could be introduced that are impossible to find when
using the debugger.   That really seems like a bad idea.

There must be some kind of problem that you're trying to solve?  Perhaps
we can suggest an alternative, if you told us why you're doing this?


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