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From: reb@fred.UUCP (Roy Binz)
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Subject: Re: "sdb" vs. "dbx"
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Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 12:19:05 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 20 12:19:05 1986
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> From what I can tell, the only thing "sdb" can do which "dbx" cannot is to
> dump the machine registers; you can examine individual registers, but
> there's no command which dumps them all.  This would be convenient, and
> could probably easily be added to "dbx".
> 
> 	Guy Harris
> 	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
> 	guy@sun.arpa	(yes, really)

The other one, and the one that annoys me most, is the inability to disassemble
a procedure starting at a given source line.  Having ported DBX to the 68000,
am I a fairly sure that this does not exist, but somebody knows how to do it,
please reply to me by email.

	Roy Binz
	{ucbvax, hao, allegra}!nbires!fred!reb