Strange debugger behavior

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 03:37:11PM -0500, Tom Carey wrote:
>    I'm reasonably new to FP. Working on 4.05.07 DOS ( dont' ask).
>
>    I find that the debugger seems to do things that I don't expect.
>    I have a series of statements on a @wlf that check the @SK to see
>    if it was an ENTR or SAVE key and branch off to different routines
>    based on the key stroke and other combined conditions.
>
>    If I single step thru the code, the first line correctly tests the
>    @SK. Subsequent lines don't seem to preserve the @SK correctly, so
>    the test for a SAVE key does not show as true. I am using the "S"
>    key to single step thru the code.

As noted, an old documented bug.  If you're stuck on that version, rip
@sk off into sk on the first line of your dispatcher routine, and
switch on that.

Cheers,
-- jra
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