Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: GNU Make 3.58 on HP-UX 7.0 ? Message-ID: <3905@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> Date: 26 Sep 90 13:14:20 GMT References: <1990Sep17.201337.15659@bpdsun1.uucp> <7370211@hpfcso.HP.COM> Sender: news@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Lines: 14 In-reply-to: jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Guillermo J. Rozas) >>>>> In article , jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Guillermo J. Rozas) (GJR) writes: GJR> It would be nice if HP changed xdb and cdb to use the same debugging GJR> information format (and understand the old one for compatibility) as GJR> dbx. In this way dbx could be ported by the users who wanted it. It would also help if HP documented the debugger table format in the a.out files. And the assembler syntax that goes with it. This would allow someone to port gdb to use the HP-UX a.out format. -- Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31 30 531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet Telefax: +31 30 513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete')