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From: rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: adb on ps/2
Summary: Why haven't we learned this yet???
Message-ID: <16132@vail.ICO.ISC.COM>
Date: 26 Sep 89 06:13:42 GMT
References: <3914@yunexus.UUCP> <20188@gryphon.COM> <6372@turnkey.gryphon.COM> <20206@gryphon.COM>
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp, Boulder, CO
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In article <20206@gryphon.COM>, oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev) writes:
> >Finally, adb is not part of the product, dbx is the supported debugger.
>
> In Gen2 as well?!?!
>
> A stroke of executive genius, to be sure...
Well, Oleg, AIX is in good company here, as many other UNIX ports have
decided that adb wasn't important. I wish we (in the broad sense of the
community of people who work on UNIX ports) would learn that adb is a
useful tool; that it does things the other debuggers do poorly if at all
(like patching arbitrary files conveniently); that we need it, and if we
need other debuggers, they are needed <> adb, not
<> adb.
Sigh...I've been through this before, when a barely-working sdb was trying
to replace adb. Before sdb got repaired, a completely-non-functional dbx
took its place. This was years ago and light-years away, but it's the same
story.
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