Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!gwyn@Brl-Vld.ARPA From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Debuging C code.... Message-ID: <7139@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 10:48:56 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7139 Posted: Wed Jan 9 10:48:56 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 06:38:57 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 12 csv?? Boy do you have an old PDP-11 compiler! Modern C compilers, such as the current PCC, generate much more useful symbol table information. There are symbolic debuggers that make use of this information to make debugging much more pleasant than using "adb". 4.2BSD has a debugger called "dbx", and UNIX System V has "sdb" (using a much richer symbol table). The niftiest debugger I have seen so far is "joff" (aka "dmdebug"); it runs in a DMD (5620, BLIT) layer and lets one snoop around in code running in any layer. It even understands DMD graphic primitives so it can illuminate the rectangle in question, and so forth. Too bad it doesn't let one debug code on the host too.