From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 30 4:23:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from granger.mail.mindspring.net (granger.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E1637B422 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 04:23:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.139.3.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.139.3]) by granger.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA06609; Wed, 30 May 2001 07:22:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B14D816.1EDDC86B@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 04:23:02 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Nickolay A. Kritsky" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Debuggers for FreeBSD References: <00ef01c0e820$bd2bb690$0600a8c0@ibmka.internethelp.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Nickolay A. Kritsky" wrote: > > Hi all. > I am using assembly language to write some useful programs > for my FreeBSD 3.3_release and i need some debugger. I am > not happy with gdb. Can you tell me if there is some Soft-ICE > type debuggers under this OS ? SoftICE is actually overkill; ddd and gdb are probably best, unless you are talking protected mode code. If your code is running in the kernel, you will want to look at /sys/i386/conf/LINT, and look for the "DDB" and "BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER" options. That gives you access to a non-visual SoftICE-like debugger, which is capable of doing protected mode and user mode debugging. I occasionally miss SoftICE's visual change notification features. 8-(. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message