Subject: Re: ddb; how about adb?
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/17/2002 11:34:14
> In some email I received from Greywolf, sie wrote:
> > # ...I'll try and get more info once I figure out who broke DDB :-/
> > 
> > I know this is off the original topic; but since the source code access
> > license has been lifted apparently for things like Net-2, is there any
> > chance of reintroducing adb?  It was a very nice all-purpose binary file
> > patche^W^W^Wdebugger.  I found it actually much more friendly to work
> > with in retrieving, e.g., a stack backtrace than gdb (yeah, yeah -- go
> > figure that one).
> 
> Lots of people seem to want adb in the tree so one would hope that this
> is good enough to see it get brought in :)
> 
I have been using it on NetBSD/vax for years. But that is one of the 
problems, it must get assembly support for other archs and also the
ability to understand ELF binaries. 

-- Ragge