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From: steve-t@hpfcso.HP.COM (Steve Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: xdb debugger question?
Message-ID: <7370202@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 90 16:56:32 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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} > This is what I am doing:
} > 	Start xdb
} > 	td #go into assemble mode
} >	s #single step
} Here's the problem, s/S steps statement by statement, use j/J to step at the
} instruction level.

Jim is thinking in cdb mode.  s/S in disassembly mode does single step at the
instruction level in xdb.  However, when xdb starts the child process (user
program), it sets a breakpoint at _main and free-runs to it.  I don't know of
a way to change this (which is not proof one doesn't exist.)

Why not use adb? 					Regards, Steve Taylor

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