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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wanted: Good Debugger (hopefully PD)
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Date: Sun, 18-Jan-87 03:34:31 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 18 03:34:31 1987
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The GNU project has been shipping a public domain source level debugger
for C programs, called "gdb" (GNU DeBugger).  I know it runs on Suns
and Vaxes.  I have an old copy lying around, but you should get the latest
copy from the Free Software Foundation.  (If there isn't a volunteer with
Arpanet access and an Amiga, to move it to Amiga floppies, I could grab it
from the Arpanet and uucp it to Fred Fish.  Let's see if anybody wants it,
first, and if a volunteer pops up.)

Being a source level debugger, it requires that the compiler output a
symbol table and such; and it needs to be taught about the particular
format of the symbol table for *your* compiler.  It currently knows
Sun and Vax "dbx" symbol tables, and its own format, which can be produced
by the public domain GNU C compiler (being tested now).  I haven't used
gdb myself, but have watched RMS use it, and it's roughly the same power
as Unix "dbx" -- you don't see the machine language at all unless you
want to; you just work in C.
-- 
John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   gnu@ingres.berkeley.edu
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