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From: hartley@uvm-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Hartley)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: how does adb/dbx work?
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 11:59:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 11:59:25 1985
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I was wondering if somebody could explain how adb (and dbx) executes programs.
Does it have a software simulator that interprets the instructions in the
object file of the program being debugged?  Or does it use the VAX hardware
to execute the program, say by hardware single-stepping?  I could trudge through
the code, but I was wondering if somebody already knew.  Thanks.
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