gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (02/28/88)
In article <246@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes: >As far as using the debuggers provided with my SysVr3.0, I would love to >do that, but have been discouraged because of the lack of any tutorial >information and description of what the debugger reports, and because it >looks like I will have to learn 32000 assembly language to get any use >out of the sdb debugger. If you know of a place where I can learn >something useful about sdb, please let me know. Besides the entry in the UNIX System V Programmer's Release 3 Reference Manual (307-226), there is a more tutorial summary as chapter 15 of the UNIX System V Release 3 Programmer's Guide (307-225). You need not learn anything about WE32000 assembly language to obtain useful information such as a traceback of the function calls at the time of failure. In fact, sdb is normally used in conjunction with the C source code, not with the machine language generated by the compiler.