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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Picking a Debugger
Message-ID: <7900@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 9 Apr 88 18:22:23 GMT
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Reply-To: dan@apple.UUCP (Dan Allen)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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The standard debugger that Apple offers is MacsBug, an assembly-level
debugger originally written by Motorola in the late 70s.  Apple has  
since completely rewritten it I suppose, but it is usually the most
up to date with various Macintosh system software.  The latest
shipping version of MacsBug is 5.5, which is where I turned over the
sources to a new Mr. MacsBug at Apple who has continued to improve it,
with a version 6.0 in the works for MPW 3.0 later this year.

TMON is a good debugger too.  MacsBug and TMON have both been trading
features with each other to the point that they are both quite nice.

Jasik's The Debugger is quite large, but of course very comprehensive
as well.

A new MPW source level debugger will be coming also with MPW 3.0 later
this year.  It will be very large and will require multiple MB of RAM
and MultiFinder to use it most effectively.

So which debugger to get?  I'd recommend MacsBug, but then, I wrote
MacsBug.

Dan Allen
Author of MacsBug
(I stood on the shoulders of giants like Steve Capps...; I didn't write
it all)