RE: Introduce myself

[Roger Gilbert]

I was totally done in assembler. I created everything including the
multitasking operating system
myself. Because of security, and sourcing we could not buy or use code from
anyone else. We had
to create everything on our own.

Because we were doing pattern recognition, every single clock cycle of a cpu
was important.

We would do things like push an address on the stack, and then execute a
return instruction to go
to a subroutine, because that took 2 clock cycles of the cpu less than a
call instruction.

But I tell you it really created some weird looking code.

I quit that 10 years ago. At that time C compilers were not effiecient
enough or created compact
enough code to use them. That was why I never learned C.

When you work on a project like that, no one person ever knows the entire
code, each person works only
on segments of it.

I rather enjoy commercial projects more. Not all the cloak and dagger stuff.
Not all the security.
If I want to use a subroutine I do not have to justify it with 400 pages of
documentation.

That's why I am trying to get DDD debugger working so I can debug my new C
code I am writing.

Roger


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Dinesh
Tewatia
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 1:03 PM
To: Discussion list for DDD, the GNU graphical debugger front end
Subject: Re: Introduce myself

Hi
Roger
Your profile looks interesting what kind of tools you used for image  
guided missile systems.

regards
Dinesh
On Aug 1, 2008, at 5:18 PM, Roger Gilbert wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am an old school engineer that has programed machine code most my  
> life.
>
> I am now switching over to C++ and I am having a hard time getting  
> used to
> a few of the new string and variable contraints.
>
> I am learning as I go along, and want to use the DDD debugger so I get
> a better feel for what is happening in my programs.
>
> I live in Southern California, byt I came from a suburb of Chicago,  
> Ill.
>
> I live with my wife, dog and two cats.
>
> I started out in medical electronics, went to industrial automation,  
> to
> image guided missile systems and targeting systems for the military.
>
> For the last few years I have been building high end homes here in
> California and now I am retraining myself as the work in the home
> industry is few and far between.
>
> Roger Gilbert
>
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