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From: cks@radio.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MANX C & SDB
Message-ID: <962@radio.toronto.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 88 05:47:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: radio.962
Posted: Mon Feb 22 00:47:02 1988
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Reply-To: cks@radio.UUCP (Chris Siebenmann)
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In article <2522@crash.cts.com> haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:
>
>        Just out of curiousity, does anyone on the net have a working
>Beta of the SDB?  With no fatal bugs included?
>
>        The reason I ask is because I've begun to wonder if the thing
>actually exists yet.  I think it is still vapor-ware!

 We have a working copy at work (along with 3.6). I'm not certain
whether it's a beta or the final release; our president managed to
talk Jim Goodnow into sending us a copy after the LA AmiExpo (all we
have is a disk with the essential bits of 3.6, sdb, and a demo with
some scanty documentation).

 It works. It's nice, but could be nicer. I haven't found any fatal
bugs yet, although I haven't tried to look at floating point numbers
with it.  Source level debugging is the only way to go, though; you
can do so many neat things with SDB (like evaluating arbitrary
expressions, including function calls, or printing a structure with
all its fields labeled).

-- 
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