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- From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Summary of responses [was: What would you like from a debugger?]
- Message-ID: <PCG.92Aug17153502@aberdb.aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 15:35:02 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk's message of 14 Aug 92 12: 09:51 GMT
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- On 14 Aug 92 12:09:51 GMT, bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) said:
- Followup-To: comp.arch
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- bevan> (Peter da Silva) writes:
- bevan> (Bryan O'Sullivan) writes:
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- Silva> I haven't decided yet what constitutes the smallest debugger I
- Silva> can get away with, but such things as printing data structures
- Silva> and their contents on the fly are out of the question.
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- Bryan> Embed an interpreted language in the debugger (drive it from
- Bryan> TCL?).
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- bevan> You mean like Norman Ramsey's use of PostScript as the "little
- bevan> language" with which to drive his debugger "ldb"? Check out PLDI
- bevan> '92 pp 22-31
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- There is also this incredible X-based debugger from the University of
- Kent at Canterbury, which is also (still?) free sw, that contains as
- extension language C itself. Really! It is a debugger that incorporates
- as one component a C compiler and interpreter.
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