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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!van-bc!van-bc!not-for-mail From: jhenders@wimsey.com (John Henders) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: How to debug C programs Date: 26 Oct 1996 00:57:33 -0700 Organization: Wimsey Information Services Lines: 23 Message-ID: <54sg9d$et1@vanbc.wimsey.com> References: <54plmi$rce@hoho.quake.net> <54rpdv$11a@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: vanbc.wimsey.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.programmer:45329 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5189 In <54rpdv$11a@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> jonc@pinnacle.co.nz (Jonathan Chen) writes: >In <54plmi$rce@hoho.quake.net> ian@idk.com (Ian Kettleborough) writes: >>C is not new to me, have used it for years in a PC (DOS) >>envirmonent. There are great debuggers there when things don't go >>quite right. How and what does one use on BSDI to debug a C program >>other than a lot of printf's!! >man sdb >man dbx >man gdb As well, there's two great X based debuggers that work as a front end for gdb (three counting xxgdb) I don't know if anyone's done a port of ups to BSDI, otherwise you could look at ddd. DDD, however, requires motif, though there are static linked versions for many OS's. UPS should be in the contrib directory of any X archive. DDD is from Germany and has a web page, but I don't have the URL. (try Alta-Vista) -- John Henders - System Administrator - Mindlink!/Wimsey