Microsoft CodeView
Microsoft CodeView is a debugger that is designed for 16-bit Real-mode programs (CV.EXE) and 16-bit protected-mode programs (CVP.EXE). It shipped with several Microsoft language products for DOS and OS/2.
Features
- Full-screen window interface
- Viewing source code or generated assembly code during execution
- Single stepping through source code or generated assembly code
- Symbolic references to local or global variables
- Setting breakpoints, including conditional breakpoints based on changing memory or expression evaluation
- Options to view or modify memory, display contents of registers, view application output screen
- Ability to display and assign new values to variables
Versions
- 1.0 (1985) - shipped with Microsoft C 4.0
- 2.00 (1987)
- 2.10 (1988) - shipped with Microsoft MASM 5.0
- 2.20
- 2.30
- 3.00
- 3.10 (1990) - shipped with MS BASIC PDS 7.1
- 3.14 (May 1991) - shipped with MS BASIC PDS 7.1
- 4.0 - distributed with Microsoft C/C++ 7.0
- 4.01
- 4.1
CodeView for Windows
- 4.0
- 4.01
- 4.1
Product Documentation
- CodeView Debugger (Apr 1986) [1]
- Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.1 CodeView and Utilities
- CodeView Debugger User's Guide
Publications
- David Norris; Michael J. O'Leary: CodeView: Debugging Philosophy And Step-by-Step Technique - MSJ Vol. 2 No. 1