Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 01:56:14 -0700 From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu> To: ports Subject: ooh ooh Message-ID: <199505090856.BAA06946@freefall.cdrom.com>
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I've wanted this for a long time and will try and get it to work soon.
Of course, if someone else wants to get to it before I do, that's okay
too.
>From zeller@ips.CS.tu-bs.DE Mon May 8 23:56:17 PDT 1995
Article: 5096 of gnu.gdb.bug
From: zeller@ips.CS.tu-bs.DE
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: The Data Display Debugger (DDD) 1.0 is available
Date: 7 May 1995 08:23:32 -0400
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The following announcement may be of interest for GDB users.
DDD 1.0 is available
====================
Release 1.0 of the Data Display Debugger (DDD), a graphical
front-end for GDB and DBX debuggers, is now available by anonymous
FTP from `ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de` [134.169.32.1] in the file
`/pub/local/softech/ddd/ddd-1.0.tar.gz' (0.9 MB). Diffs from
earlier versions are in `/pub/local/softech/ddd/diffs/`. Binaries
for various architectures are in `/pub/local/softech/ddd/bin/`.
Please try a closer FTP site first; see below for a list.
Summary of DDD
==============
The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a novel graphical user
interface to GDB and DBX, the popular UNIX debuggers. Besides
``usual'' features such as viewing source texts and breakpoints,
DDD provides a *graphical data display*, where data structures are
displayed as graphs. A simple mouse click dereferences pointers
or views structure contents. Complex data structures can be
explored incrementally and interactively, using automatic layout
if preferred. Each time the program stops, the data display
reflects the current variable values. Using DDD, you can reason
about your application by viewing its data, not just by viewing it
execute lines of source code.
Other DDD features include: debugging of programs written in C,
C++, Pascal, or Modula-2; hypertext source navigation and lookup;
GDB/DBX command-line interface with full editing, history, and
completion capabilities; breakpoint, backtrace, and history
editors; optional program execution in terminal emulator window;
debugging on remote host; on-line manual; interactive help on the
OSF/Motif user interface. DDD has been designed to compete with
well-known commercial debuggers.
DDD has been extensively beta-tested (especially by debugging
itself) and has been reported to compile and run out-of-the-box
for a variety of UNIX architectures, including AIX
(powerpc-ibm-aix3, rs6000-ibm-aix3), Suns (sparc-sun-sunos4,
sparc-sun-solaris2), DECs (mips-dec-ultrix4), HPs
(hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.05) and Linux (i386-unknown-linux,
i486-unknown-linux).
DDD is free software, protected by the GNU general public license.
It is actively maintained by its authors, Dorothea Luetkehaus and
Andreas Zeller at the Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany.
Requirements
============
To build a complete DDD system from sources, you need:
* The GNU C++ compiler (GCC/G++), version 2.6.3, and a matching
C++ I/O library (libg++, libstdc++, or libiostream).
GCC version 2.6.0, 2.6.1, and 2.6.2 have been reported to
compile DDD, but the resulting executable may fail due to
bugs in these GCC versions. GCC 2.5.8 may work. No one has
tried yet to compile DDD using a C++ compiler other than GCC.
* The X window library (Xlib) and X toolkit library (Xt),
X11R4 or later.
* The OSF/Motif Widget library (release 1.1 or later). Best
results are achieved using Motif 2.0 in conjunction with the
Athena Widget library.
* Optionally, the Athena Widget library (release 5 or later).
Having the Athena Widget library is convenient for supporting
two-dimensional scrollbars and the `editres' protocol.
To run DDD, you need a GDB debugger (version 4 is required; best
results are achieved with 4.13 or later). Using GDB, you can
debug programs written in C and C++.
As an alternative, DDD also supports Sun's DBX debugger. Using
DBX, you can additionally debug programs written in Pascal and
Modula-2. DBX debuggers on other systems may work, too.
More Information
================
A World-Wide-Web page (including screen shots) devoted to DDD is
installed at `http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/software/ddd_e.html'.
The DDD users mailing list, `ddd-users@ips.cs.tu-bs.de', is the
right place to contact other DDD users for assistance and hints.
New DDD releases and bug fixes are also announced here.
Send a mail to `ddd-users-request@ips.cs.tu-bs.de' for more
information.
Send suggestions and bug reports for DDD to `ddd-bugs@ips.cs.tu-bs.de'.
DDD source FTP sites
====================
The DDD source package `ddd-1.0.tar.gz' will soon be at these FTP
sites as well. Please try them before `ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de' since
ftp.ips has a slow network connection.
North America
-------------
ftp.crl.research.digital.com[192.58.206.2]:/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/
ftp.x.org[198.112.44.100]:/contrib/utilities/
ftp.cs.columbia.edu[128.59.26.5]:/archives/X11R6/contrib/utilities/
ftp.uu.net[192.48.96.9]:/systems/window-sys/X/contrib/utilities/
Europe
------
ftp.denet.dk[129.142.6.74]:/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/
nic.funet.fi[192.52.71.41]:/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/
ftp.ibp.fr[132.227.60.2]:/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/
ftp.germany.eu.net[192.76.144.75]:/pub/X11/XConsortium/contrib/utilities/
ftp.uni-paderborn.de[131.234.2.32]:/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/
ftp.luth.se[130.240.18.2]:/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/
ftp.sunet.se[130.238.127.3]:/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/
ftp.eunet.ch[146.228.10.16]:/archive/software/X/utilities/
ftp.NL.net[193.78.240.13]:/pub/windows/X/contrib/utilities/
src.doc.ic.ac.uk[146.169.2.10]:/packages/X11-contrib/utilities/
East Asia
---------
ftp.cs.cuhk.hk[137.189.4.57]:/pub/Xcontrib/utilities/
ftp.iij.ad.jp[192.244.176.50]:/pub/X/contrib/utilities/
NCTUCCCA.edu.tw[140.111.1.10]:/X/contrib/utilities/
Australia
---------
archie.AU[139.130.23.2]:X11/contrib/utilities/
DDD Binary FTP sites
====================
DDD pre-compiled binaries are available for a variety of
architectures. This may be useful for people who lack GCC or
Motif. However, compiling DDD on your machine is strongly
preferred. Use binaries as a last resort only.
The `README' file contains a list of available binaries.
Additional contributions are welcome.
Europe
------
ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de[134.169.32.1]:/pub/local/softech/ddd/bin/
Have fun!
--
Andreas Zeller (ddd@ips.cs.tu-bs.de)
Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany
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