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From: obie@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Timothy D. Notestein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MANX C & SDB
Message-ID: <8275@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 27 Feb 88 10:21:30 GMT
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Reply-To: obie@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Timothy D. Notestein)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Keywords: SDB, debugger, assembly, C
Summary: Usefulness of SDB to non-Assembly C programmer

In article <7204@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
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>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

For someone that doesn't know Assembly, the SDB still completely fits the
bill as an extremely powerful debugger.  Heck, I _don't_ know 68000
assembly, although I hope to learn soon, and it would appear that SDB is
the _best_ learning tool that I have for Assembly!  Since I'm not that
familiar with assembly, I'm not sure how a seasoned assembly programmer
would view the SDB, but for the regular C junkie?  Great!  :-)

>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) ?
>
>
>-- 
>------------
>Eric Kennedy
>ejkst@cisunx.UUCP
 
Without doubt.  It would be difficult to use without a competant grasp
of the C language, and it helps to be familiar with the concepts involved,
like how pointers work, etc, as, without THAT knowledge, which is
covered in any complete C book, it would be difficult to intelligently
use the debugger.

 
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