bonak@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Esmail Bonakdarian) (09/28/90)
I am trying to decide which debugger to learn to use with C on
our BSD Unix system.
What are the relative merits of the sdb and dbx programs? Is one
preferable to the other? Why? Are there any other debuggers I
should know about that are fairly standard on Unix systems?
My previous experience with debuggers has been mostly in a PC
based environment (Borland's TD and MS CV) and a little under
VAX VMS.
Thanks for any info.
Esmail
PS: any other C related tools/programs (other than make, lint)
that I should know about?bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) (09/28/90)
[Please continue in comp.unix.programmer. ] Article <2460@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> by bonak@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Esmail Bonakdarian) says: |I am trying to decide which debugger to learn to use with C on |our BSD Unix system. | |What are the relative merits of the sdb and dbx programs? If you have dbx, use that. The syntax and semantics of sdb are so strangely interwoven that it is a pain. E.g: 'xyz' prints the value of xyz, 'i' issues the i command even if there is an i variable. -- Bjorn Engsig, Domain: bengsig@oracle.nl, bengsig@oracle.com Path: uunet!mcsun!orcenl!bengsig From IBM: auschs!ibmaus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!oracle!bengsig