Path: utzoo!censor!comspec!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!utrcu1!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer From: klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte -- Universiteit Twente) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Most requested features in MINIX... Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 09:44:11 GMT References: <43516@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991Feb3.233633.7986@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Feb11.155205.18570@chvax.uucp> Sender: news@utrcu1.UUCP Lines: 20 wssaz@chvax.uucp (Schweizer W.) writes: >As MINIX is intendes for educational purposes I also think is needs a >debugger. I work on ST-MINIX and there IS a debugger (mdb), but only >on assembler level. I vote for a SYMBOLIC debugger, which would make >life easier for software porters. Of course, a symbolic debugger is nice -- but the current object format does not support symbolic debugging info. (Perhaps you win with GNU C + gdb; but you should have very much ram (2.5+ Meg, or even more ?)) When any runnable compiler (on my 1Meg machine) produces the info, i am willing to rewrite mdb to a symbolic debugger (Or port gdb to minix). (CvW, are you listening :-)) Klamer -- Klamer Schutte Faculty of electrical engineering -- University of Twente, The Netherlands klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl {backbone}!mcsun!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com