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- From: lew@gsg.UUCP (Paul Lew)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.c,comp.arch
- Subject: Re: What would you like in a debugger?
- Summary: define a standard so we dont have to learn every debugger..
- Keywords: debugging
- Message-ID: <1188@gsg.UUCP>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 19:12:28 GMT
- References: <bosullvn.713613694@unix1.tcd.ie> <id.SKBS.RIL@ferranti.com>
- Organization: General Systems Group, Inc., Salem, NH
- Lines: 29
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- The most annoying problem of debuggers is everyone is different. What we
- need is a standard interface or 'common debugger protocol (CDP)' if you
- will be defined and adopted by all the upperlayer debuggers. If this
- becomes a reality, then I can stay in my favorite codecenter and cross
- debug a PC program with runaway pointers. The PC debugging may finally
- become interesting... (I choose codeview and codecenter without any
- specific purpose but illustrating an idea)
-
- +-------------+ X +-----------------+
- | PC codeview | X | Unix codecenter |
- | GUI |---. X .--| X11 GUI |
- +-------------+ | X | +-----------------+
- | CDP | X | CDP | CDP
- | .------------. |
- | CDP X | | |
- | .----------. | |
- | | X | |
- V V X V V
- +-------------+ X +------------+
- | PC codeview | X | Codecenter |
- | backend | X | backend |
- | runs on PC | X |runs on Unix|
- +-------------+ X +------------+
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