Who uses 'adb' debugger? (Supplementary to my own question.)

[Peter Rowell]

In article <50349 at bu.edu.bu.edu> clement%buengf.bu.edu at bu-cs.bu.edu (Clement Lee) writes:
>It seems that cdb is a "not so popular" C debugger, and not many
>people know about it.

Perhaps "not so well known" might be more accurate (:-) - cdb seems to
be quite popular with our customers.  They like really radical features
like (a) it doesn't lie to them about the true value of bit fields (or
register values saved on the stack frame, etc.) and (b) that cdb does
not use "Segmentation violation" as its way of indicating incorrect
input.

> Okay, then after I have gone to check it out, I
>found out that it says "Copyright 1984 Third Eye Software, Inc." and
>the version number is 19040 (I am running UMAX 4.2, same as 4.2 BSD,
>on an Encore Multimax machine).

Cdb runs on a wide range of architectures (including 680x0, 32x32,
Pyramid, SPARC, 80386, CCI Tahoe, Vax, 29000, and 3B2) under a truly
bizzare list of "UNIX" systems.

>My friend in CS told me that gdb (GNU) and cdb are better than sdb or adb,

True.

>and gdb is the best, but to run gdb, the C program has to be
>compiled by gcc.  But I still have no idea of what is better.

I would argue that cdb *might* be better than gdb, but then I'm
prejudiced.  I am almost certain gdb will work with compilers other
than gcc.

>Also, gdb and cdb "man" pages can be sent upon request.

(Minor plug follows)

Complete cdb information may also be obtained from:

	Diane Butler
	Third Eye Software, Inc.
	535 Middlefield Road, Suite 170
	Menlo Park, CA  94025
	(415) 321-0967
	diane at thirdi.UUCP
	...!{apple,pyramid,sun}!thirdi!diane

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Peter Rowell				peter at thirdi.UUCP
Third Eye Software, Inc.		(415) 321-0967
Menlo Park, CA  94025