Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!cs.utexas.edu!helios!helios.tamu.edu!allen From: allen@gigem.ssc.gov (Mike Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: GNU Make 3.58 on HP-UX 7.0 ? Message-ID: Date: 26 Sep 90 17:40:30 GMT References: <1990Sep17.201337.15659@bpdsun1.uucp> <7370211@hpfcso.HP.COM> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Reply-To: allen@sscvx1.ssc.gov Organization: SSC Laboratory, Dallas, TX Lines: 28 In-reply-to: jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu's message of 22 Sep 90 14:36:21 GMT >>>>> On 22 Sep 90 14:36:21 GMT, jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Guillermo J. Rozas) said: In article jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Guillermo J. Rozas) writes: >> PS: Why don't HP9000s have the dbx debugger? > >NIH. [...stuff deleted] Guillermo> Furthermore gdb, in my opinion a much better debugger written by the Guillermo> Free Software Foundation, would have a cleaner port. Currently gcc Guillermo> has to use its own assembler and linker in order to put the debugging Guillermo> information on the object file that gdb will understand. The relative Guillermo> merits of dbx, gdb, and xdb/cdb can be argued over forever, since they Guillermo> are a matter of taste. I prefere the gcc/gdb combination because it Guillermo> allows me to debug fully optimized (-O) code, and gdb works nicely Guillermo> from within GNU Emacs. Two more reasons to use gdb: 1) It can be used to debug C++ code (at least code compiled with g++) 2) gdb runs on all our machines (Masscomp, HP, NeXT, Sun) so I don't have to learn a different debugger for each vendor. How about some support for GNU products by HP? -- =============================================================================== Michael E. Allen al tadin et khaverakh 'ad shetagi'a limkomo