j4b@psuecl.bitnet (Joe B...ski) (07/05/89)
Does anyone know of a better debugger than sdb for c under unix? I
have some problems with it and am looking for a new one. Thanks in
advance for the help.
Joe Broniszewskiwoods@eci386.UUCP (07/07/89)
In article <43028@psuecl.bitnet> j4b@psuecl.bitnet (Joe B...ski) writes: > Does anyone know of a better debugger than sdb for c under unix? I > have some problems with it and am looking for a new one. Thanks in > advance for the help. Yup. A newer version of sdb. Sorry, I couldn't resist.... :-) The CPLU (APU?) 4.1 version (AT&T 3B2's, SysVr3.1v2) isn't all that bad. I hear the 4.2 one is even better! The problem with SDB is the manual. Terse is an understatement! The discussion in the Programmer's Guide is much better. You _can_ do almost anything with sdb. Actually, try HCR's dbxtra. I saw a demo about a month ago, and was quite impressed. It seems to be a multi-window version of dbx, with COFF support hacked in. It appeared to be as easy to use as MS-CodeView but more powerful! There's also gdb (GNU, aka FSF). Not sure if they have COFF support. For X-Window hackers, there's xdbx. -- Greg A. Woods woods@{eci386,gate,robohack,ontmoh,tmsoft,gpu.utcs.UToronto.CA,utorgpu.BITNET} +1-416-443-1734 [h] +1-416-595-5425 [w] Toronto, Ontario CANADA