lorien@dartvax.UUCP (10/20/83)
I'm a relative newcomer to C and have, over the last few months, had to learn the hard way how to deal with C runtime errors. I find SDB helpful, but grossly inadequate compared with a normal runtime environment as one finds in most other languages. As I'm not likely to convince the higher-ups real soon to get me one of those run-time check programs that trap arrays out of bounds and bad pointer references etc., I thought I'd ask the newsgroup if you know of any good books on the subject or could point me to some decent documentation (none of all this is mentioned in K&R). We have just received 4.2 today, but won't have it up for a while. Are there any utilities there that may help me? --Lorien Y. Pratt Hanover, NH ...decvax!dartvax!dartlib!rlorien
ks@pur-ee.UUCP (Kirk Smith) (10/22/83)
#R:dartvax:-29300:ecn-ee:13100005:000:360 ecn-ee!ks Oct 21 12:34:00 1983 In response to dartlib!rlorien.... dbx(1) is the symbolic debugger provided with 4.2BSD.. I have used it only a few times, but have found it to be downright execellent. Good job Berkeley. It is at least an order of magnitude better than sdb, and it will probably give you a lot more help in solving the problems you mentioned. Kirk Smith Purdue EE