Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!d88-jwa
From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: QUESTION: Reasonable CODE debugger/patcher
Summary: Gimme 1 N Ill shut up
Keywords: debugger, CODE, patcher
Message-ID: <1080@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 24 May 89 12:34:08 GMT
References: <5586@hubcap.clemson.edu> <31489@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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So, anyone knows an answer to this:

I need a debugger/patcher that's independent of
language, actually, independent of source code.
What I want to do is to be able to taken an APPL,
CODE resource or something like it, disassemble
it in the nice way that MacsBug 6.0 does, hack in
new assembler that replaces/extends the code, and
SAVE IT ALL BACK. MacsBug lets me do some of these
things, but I have to break out from inside the
running code. Preferrably I wouldn't have to run
the code in order to load it. Also, MacsBug only
has Hex format input, which is a little but TOO
much work for me. Finally, MacsBug can't save back
patches made to the code.

Anyone got any pointers/suggestions/PD software/
order forms for anything like it? (My previous
experience in these matters come from sdb & dbx
under UNIX and (don't laugh, it was a long time
ago) DDT under CP/M-80 and CP/M-86

Thanx in advance!

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