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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MANX C & SDB
Message-ID: <7204@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 88 15:20:19 GMT
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In article <8235@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>, obie@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Timothy D. Notestein) writes:
> By the way, I HAVE received the Manx Source Level Debugger.
> 
> It is truly amazing, and a very useful programming tool.  It does what you would
> expect it to, single-stepping through the program, setting breakpoints,
> disassembling and viewing memory.  By the way, if you are thinking of learning
> 68000 (10) assembly, the SDB is well worth the $75 purchase price for that
> feature alone! When it disassembles your running code, it displays the C
> statement, and then beneath it the Assembly code.

Thanks for the good review!  One question, just how useful is SDB for
someone who _doesn't_ know Assembly, and is not ready to take the plunge
and learn it?  I know that DB is about useless to me.  Is SDB better?
Okay, it has to be better if it's a source level debugger, but, really,
will I get much out of it if I don't know the first thing about Assembly
and don't particularly want to learn (yet) ?


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