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From: ka@hropus.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
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Subject: Re: I HATE DBX! I HATE DBX!
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Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 13:03:45 EST
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>> After running some tests then recomiling the application to use SDB
>> instead, it turned out that DBX requires somewhere between 10 and 15
>> times the memory resources that the same program compiled with SDB
>> requires.				[Kathryn Smith]
>
> The reason for this is that dbx knows so much more about your program.
>					[Spencer W. Thomas]

I don't think so.  Sdb knows the types of all the variables in the pro-
gram and the line numbers corresponding to various sections of object
code.  Sdb and dbx have different sets of commands (dbx has simple, "user
friendly" commands while sdb has a larger and more cryptic command set),
but the symbolic abilities of both debuggers are similar.
				Kenneth Almquist
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