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From: peterli@ux5.lbl.gov
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Subject: Debugging C++ with dbx ...
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Date: 5 Nov 90 21:50:16 GMT
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Reply-To: peterli@ux5.lbl.gov (Peter Li)
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As a follow-up to my previous article asking for cheap or free debuggers
for AT&T C++ 2.0 code, I decided to "hack" one up myself.

The solution is to use the demangling tools provided by AT&T C++ program 
suite to demangle just the symbol table of an executable program
compiled with "-g" flag. Afterwards, dbx will read the symbol table in
as a normal C program, but all the nasty mangled names has been 
"normalized".  (I told you it is a hack :-)

So far, it has been tested on:
1. Sun and VAX
2. 4.3 BSD, Ultrix, and SunOS 4.0+.
3. AT&T C++ 2.0

It does not yet support COFF format executables.
And you will need source code access to AT&T demangling tools,
or have someone provide them.

If anyone else is interested in testing or porting this set of programs,
send me mail to the address below and I will send you a copy (about 70K
of shar file).

Thanks,
Peter Li
email: peterli@mis.ucsf.edu