Which (C) debugger to use?

Bjorn Engsig bengsig at oracle.nl
Fri Sep 28 21:41:48 AEST 1990


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Article <2460 at ns-mx.uiowa.edu> by bonak at herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Esmail Bonakdarian) says:
|I am trying to decide which debugger to learn to use with C on
|our BSD Unix system.
|
|What are the relative merits of the sdb and dbx programs?
If you have dbx, use that.  The syntax and semantics of sdb are so strangely
interwoven that it is a pain.  E.g: 'xyz' prints the value of xyz, 'i' issues
the i command even if there is an i variable.
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