What variable type is returned from Open()?

[dcwhatthe at gmail.com]

On Friday, April 17, 2020 at 2:11:17 PM UTC-4, Rhodri James wrote:
> On 17/04/2020 17:18, dc wrote:
> > Maybe it isn't true for all IDE's or all languages. (I know SOMEONE
> > will interject here, to argue for the sake of arguing). But when I
> > worked with Groovy in Intellij about 5 years ago, there were times
> > when the IDE was confused, during a debugging sessions. I don't
> > remember the exact details, but that anomaly happened only with DEFed
> > variables ; it didn't happen when the data type was specified.
> 
> This is a general problem for IDEs, and type information isn't always 
> helpful.  The number of times I have had to add useless bits of code to 
> cast something to (uint8_t *) because I want to see the bytes and the 
> IDE will not give up on trying to interpret them for me.
> 
> And people wonder why I stick to gdb when at all possible :-)
> 
> -- 
> Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd

Never worked with it.  Is it a debugger for compiled code, i.e. it steps through the executable while displaying the source?  Or interpreted code?