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From: gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: adb
Keywords: how why when
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.093206.8087@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 91 09:32:06 GMT
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23n@sage.cc.purdue.edu writes:

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>I am have been wondering about using adb.
>I use dbx, mostly for debugging small mathematical models written in C, but I've
>I Read TFM and played around a little and the thing seems to be a bitch to use.
>I do occasionally have to throw around a few pointers & dbx is okay for that, 
>  too, but what's the deal with adb?
>Are there any tutorials around about its use?
>If it's not worth learning now, what would I want to pick it up for?
> 
>23n@sage.cc.purdue.edu

>I am NOT a NUMBER!!

>- the prisoner

i dont know about dbx, but i find adb to be a good debugger. the problem
with source debuggers for c is that they do not find bugs in the compiler
very well. i use adb to patch the kernel. i have an adb script+makefile
which i use to fix up problems in the kernel.
i think man adb gives an instruction manual.

gwoho liu.