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From: jim@aob.aob.mn.org (Jim Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Who uses 'adb' debugger?
Keywords: adb debug
Message-ID: <1990Jan7.020128.9362@aob.aob.mn.org>
Date: 7 Jan 90 02:01:28 GMT
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Reply-To: jim@aob.aob.mn.org (Jim Anderson)
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In article <107@melpar.UUCP> toppin@melpar.UUCP (Doug Toppin   X2075) writes:
>I am interested in how many people use the 'adb' debugger
>...
The occasions I use adb depend on the circumstances.  On systems that have
it available, I use dbx.  On other systems, I use cdb.  On other systems,
I use adb.  If I have the core file and the executable file that created
it (and a symbol table exists in the executable), I can find out why a
program core dumped, and I can make changes to a program to prevent that
case and possibly others, from doing so.  The other advantage of adb is
that it exists on many machines, so if I provide a symbol table, I can
determine the cause of a core dump over the phone.
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Jim Anderson			(612) 636-2869
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Jim Anderson			(612) 636-2869
Anderson O'Brien, Inc		New mail:jim@aob.mn.org
2575 N. Fairview Ave.		Old mail:{rutgers,amdahl}!bungia!aob!jim
St. Paul, MN  55113		Lucifer designed MS-DOS to try men's souls.