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From: rkeller@matrox.com (Robert Keller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Who uses 'adb' debugger? (Supplementary to my own question.)
Keywords: cdb gdb dbx
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Date: 11 Jan 90 18:27:41 GMT
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In article <50349@bu.edu.bu.edu> clement%buengf.bu.edu@bu-cs.bu.edu (Clement Lee) writes:
>...to run gdb, the C program has to be compiled by gcc. 
>- Clement.

This is false, gdb only requires that the source be compiled with the -g option.

...robert keller      (a long time user of gdb under Sys V/386 and SunOs)