adb
Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR
allbery at NCoast.ORG
Fri Mar 15 14:55:07 AEST 1991
As quoted from <7606 at mentor.cc.purdue.edu> by 23n at sage.cc.purdue.edu:
+---------------
| I am have been wondering about using adb.
| I Read TFM and played around a little and the thing seems to be a bitch to use.
| I do occasionally have to throw around a few pointers & dbx is okay for that,
| too, but what's the deal with adb?
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adb has been pretty much superseded by sdb/dbx/gdb/cv (SCO) for debugging, but
is still useful for patching binary files. With two exceptions:
(1) It's still the Xenix ("OMF") format debugger.
(2) SCO UNIX (but, I hope, not other V.3.2's) adb insists that the file *must*
be OMF (Xenix x.out) format; it won't do arbitrary binary files. (grrr)
It's also just about the only way you can hope to debug a program without a
symbol table, but you need to be familiar enough with assembly language to get
away with it. Nevertheless, it is possible to debug and even patch symbol-
less binaries with adb.
++Brandon
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