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From: aryeh@eddie.mit.edu (Aryeh M. Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Who uses 'adb' debugger?
Summary: How about a watchdog?
Keywords: adb debug
Message-ID: <1990Jan7.195850.26785@eddie.mit.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 90 19:58:50 GMT
References: <107@melpar.UUCP> <1990Jan7.020128.9362@aob.aob.mn.org>
Reply-To: eliot@lees-rif.mit.edu (Eliot Frank)
Organization: MIT EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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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

I use adb frequently because I have used it alot and it gives me information
that sdb does not.  One irritation I have is that when tracing a process,
I am interested in seeing what routines call which, so at a certain breakpoint
I must repeatedly enter a series of keystrokes to show the call stack and 
continue on.  What I would like to see in a debugger would be a general
breakpoint macro that will execute a list of commands when a breakpoint
occurs.  Another nice feature would be to a general mechanism to show when 
procedures are entered and exited within a certain procedure or range of
addresses without setting explicit breakpoints.  

What other debuggers are available (at low cost of course :-) for Xenix anyway?

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eliot%lees-rif@eddie.mit.edu (Eliot H. Frank)