Debugging is the process of detecting, diagnosing, and eliminating errors in programs. A debugger application is designed to interact with and control the application that it is debugging. Because of the protected mode architecture of OS/2, special steps must be taken to enable a debugger application to perform its functions in the application being debugged (for example, to examine and manipulate memory locations in the address space of another process).
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