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From: kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu (Steven G. Kargl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: UPS debugger on FreeBSD 2.1.x
Date: 15 May 1997 16:58:33 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
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In article <337AFE14.1CFBAE39@freebsd.org>,
"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Chuck McCrobie wrote:
>> Please forgive me, but its the only debugger outside of the non-GUI VMS
>> debugger worth using.
>
> Balls. :-)
>
> I've looked at:
>
> ddd
> UPS [I did a port awhile back but never packaged it up :)]
> gdbtk
>
> And I have to say that `ddd' is, by far, the better GUI debugger. Among
> some of its nicer features are a pegboard on which you can put
> display/watchpoints and move them around to taste, pop-up display of
> variables simply by moving the cursor over them, it's nice.
>
> By comparison, UPS looks like a model-T. :-)
>
Well, I compiled ddd-2.1 on a -current machine, and it crashed on
its own test program. Admittedly, I linked ddd with lesstif-0.78, but
the crashes point to ddd. phkmalloc seems to think that ddd
recursively frees allocated memory.
--
Steve
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