shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) (03/14/89)
Since I asked this question a few months ago and got no response, I assume that people don't know. It turns out that you *can* debug libraries with SDB. SDB can maintain two sets of symbol and source code information, and if a ".dbg" file is created for the library, SDB can trace library calls in source mode. It's great. My libraries used to have to open a console window to dump debugging information, but now I can take all that stuff out. -- Stuart Ferguson (shf@well.UUCP) Action by HAVOC
ralph@atrp.media.mit.edu (Ralph L. Vinciguerra) (03/16/89)
In article <10964@well.UUCP> shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes: >Since I asked this question a few months ago and got no response, I assume >that people don't know. It turns out that you *can* debug libraries with >SDB. SDB can maintain two sets of symbol and source code information, and >if a ".dbg" file is created for the library, SDB can trace library calls >in source mode. Cana similar thing be done so that I can use SDB on workbench compatible programs ? The old db had no problems, but SDB seems to insist on a CLI startup. Ideas anyone (besides writing a front end to the program which turns the CLI startup into a WB startup) ?
papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (03/16/89)
In article <3640@mit-amt> ralph@atrp.media.mit.edu (Ralph L. Vinciguerra) writes: >In article <10964@well.UUCP> shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes: >>Since I asked this question a few months ago and got no response, I assume >>that people don't know. It turns out that you *can* debug libraries with >>SDB. SDB can maintain two sets of symbol and source code information, and >>if a ".dbg" file is created for the library, SDB can trace library calls >>in source mode. Stuart, have you done it yourself? I have tried with a "device" and got nowhere. sdb always says that it cannot find the device, when I know that mydev.dbg file is in the current dir and the device is loaded (after the OpenDevice). Has anybody been able to do this REALLY? >Can a similar thing be done so that I can use SDB on workbench compatible >programs ? The old db had no problems, but SDB seems to insist on a >CLI startup. Ideas anyone (besides writing a front end to the program >which turns the CLI startup into a WB startup) ? Out of luck. SDB does not handle workbench programs. -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) (03/18/89)
What I want is a way to debug *devices*. Is there a way to get SDB to debug a Dos handler? I couldn't figure one out. -- -Colin (uunet!microsoft!w-colinp) "Don't listen to me. I never do." - The Doctor
shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) (03/22/89)
+-- papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: | >In article <10964@well.UUCP> shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes: | >> [...] It turns out that you *can* debug libraries with | >>SDB. SDB can maintain two sets of symbol and source code information, and | >>if a ".dbg" file is created for the library, SDB can trace library calls | >>in source mode. | Stuart, have you done it yourself? I have tried with a "device" and | got nowhere. sdb always says that it cannot find the device, when I know | that mydev.dbg file is in the current dir and the device is loaded (after | the OpenDevice). Has anybody been able to do this REALLY? Yes, I did it. I had to try several permutations to get it to work, but the one that did was having the "iffparse.library" loaded in memory, having the "iffparse.dbg" file on the current directory and having the sources located in a subdirectory of the current directory. I used the -sPATH option on SDB to make the source subdirectory available, and did "ll iffparse" in SDB. Other combinations of names didn't work. Once the .dbg was loaded, SDB would switch back and forth between symbol tables with "ax". Worked well. I haven't tried it with a device driver, so I can't say how that works. -- Stuart Ferguson (shf@well.UUCP) Action by HAVOC