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From: davea@quasar.SGI.COM (David B. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 'call' functionality in dbx
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Date: 27 Apr 89 23:58:49 GMT
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In article <8904262103.AA15577@adt.uucp> james@adt.UUCP (james cerrato) writes:
>Does anyone know why dbx on the 4D systems does not support the 'call'
>capability?  On the 3000 IRIS systems this was very helpful when debugging

That capability is in dbx as of the 3.2 release of IRIX.

One can call a function using the ``ccall'' statement (for functions not
returning anything), or as a function call in an expression (typically in a
``print'' statement).

Regards,
[ David B. Anderson            Silicon Graphics      (415) 964-1459 x3060 ]
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