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From: ajs6143@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Andy Stefancik)
Subject: Re: How to debug C programs
Message-ID: <E05H07.5qM@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
Organization: The Boeing Company
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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:09:43 GMT
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In article <5526i2$4g7@news.eng.octel.com>,
Patrice Allais <patrice.allais@octel.com> wrote:
>ian@idk.com (Ian Kettleborough) wrote:
>
>>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!!
>
>In case you have dbx on your system, you may find it usefull.
>

Also bsdi includes a window debugger called ups.  You can also get xxgdb.
I can't stand command line debugging.

Andy S.