Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!ast From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: User program debuggers for i8088 Keywords: i8088 mdb adb sdb debugging Message-ID: <3458@ast.cs.vu.nl> Date: 2 Oct 89 18:29:16 GMT References: <9536@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 14 In article <9536@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> walls@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Monty Walls) writes: > a) no debugging info from PC compiler > 1) no line number information from PC compiler. This might be feasible. > 2) no local variable information. > b) no dump of proc areas in core dumps. Should be fairly easy to add if you can figure out what you want. > c) ptrace(I am aware of the Atari version). V1.4b has ptrace, courtesy of Bruce Evans > d) different struct exec layout on ATARI vs PC. Does POSIX say anything about this? > Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)