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Subject: Does the 'dbx' debugger work?
Message-ID: <735@cullvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Jan-87 17:43:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 22 17:43:47 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Jan-87 09:43:49 EST
Organization: Cullinet Software, Inc., Westwood, MA
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I've been using the dbx debugger, and it seems to have some problems.
In particular, (1) sometimes when an identifier is subscripted, the
result doesn't seem to be the correct address, (2) the "-" operator
applied to two pointers doesn't always produce the difference,
measured in units of the objects pointed to, but rather the difference
of the raw pointers, and (3) sometimes when 'delete' is used to remove
a trace, that trace is later triggered by the code, and dbx crashes.
Also, putting in stops or traces seems to slow execution by much more
than I expect.

P.S. We're running Ultrix 1.2

Dale
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Dale Worley		Cullinet Software
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