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From: sdh@joevax.UUCP (The Doctor)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Symbolic debuggers
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Date: Fri, 1-Aug-86 09:54:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  1 09:54:00 1986
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> 
> Why do nearly all Macinthosh development systems lack a symbolic debugger?
> Are there other (preferably C) development systems on the market which 
> include symbolic debuggers?
> Hans Mulder


Aztec C from Manx Software includes two debuggers with its products. One is
the stand MacsBug debugger from Apple, the other, db, is a very nice
symbolic debugger that works for their compiler only (as far as I can tell).
Its a charming bit of software my only complaint is the type face is made
very very small (so you can get a maximum of information on the screen at once)
to the point of eyestrain.

On the good side, it has saved enormous amounts of work and has made it far
easier to find out what code is causing a bomb, down to the line.

Steve Hawley
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