rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) (09/26/89)
In article <20206@gryphon.COM>, oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev) writes: > >Finally, adb is not part of the product, dbx is the supported debugger. > > In Gen2 as well?!?! > > A stroke of executive genius, to be sure... Well, Oleg, AIX is in good company here, as many other UNIX ports have decided that adb wasn't important. I wish we (in the broad sense of the community of people who work on UNIX ports) would learn that adb is a useful tool; that it does things the other debuggers do poorly if at all (like patching arbitrary files conveniently); that we need it, and if we need other debuggers, they are needed <<in addition to>> adb, not <<instead of>> adb. Sigh...I've been through this before, when a barely-working sdb was trying to replace adb. Before sdb got repaired, a completely-non-functional dbx took its place. This was years ago and light-years away, but it's the same story. -- +---------+ Dick Dunn rcd@ico.isc.com ico!rcd (303)449-2870 | In this | 4th annual MadHatterDay [10/6/89]: | style | A Kinder, Gentler Fool's Day |__10/6___|