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Author debugging under linux
jacob navia

2004-12-12, 3:56 pm

I have to debug a program at the assembly level in linux

Does anyone know of a good debugger?

gdb is just too much work to use. My fingers hurt from
typing

disassemble
info all registers

at each step. Besides the disassembly listing is awful.
It writes negative numbers as unsigned offsets, so you get
0xFFFFFFF8 instead of -8, for instance.

I need something like the MSVC debugger for linux, i.e.
displaying the disassembly in one window, the registers
in another.

I can't automate this, since if I write it in a
"dbg procedure", the disassemble window will scroll, and
I can't see BOTH at the same time. The registers info is
too long so that it will scroll also.

I am ready to buy a commercial product if available.
(Soft Ice for linux? or I am dreaming?)

jacob

Omega Red

2004-12-13, 3:59 pm

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:48:53 +0000 (UTC), jacob navia wrote:

> I have to debug a program at the assembly level in linux


> (Soft Ice for linux? or I am dreaming?)


You may look at http://www.linice.com/

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duncanbojangles

2004-12-13, 3:59 pm

jacob navia wrote:
> I have to debug a program at the assembly level in linux
>
> Does anyone know of a good debugger?
> jacob
>


You might want to check out ALD, Assembly Language Debugger. It's on
sourceforget at <http://ald.sourceforge.net/>. It is a very nice program
to use. Simple interface with all the options, and it's disassembly is
actually legible!

Frank Kotler

2004-12-19, 3:55 am

Eric wrote:

> I would give nearly anything if someone would port Borland's Turbo Debugger
> to linux.


Y'know... There's a debugger with the (PD) "Causeway Dos Extender"
that's a lot like TD. It will only do it's own "Causeway" apps, at
present. I've often thought that it could probably be modified to an
open source TD-alike... for dos. For Linux, almost none of it would be
useable, but you *might* get a clue how to manage a TD-like UI from
it... if someone were so foolish as to attempt such a thing...

http://www.devoresoftware.com/freesource/cwsrc.htm

Best,
Frank

Frank Kotler

2004-12-22, 8:55 am

Eric wrote:

> I would give nearly anything if someone would port Borland's Turbo Debugger
> to linux.


Y'know... There's a debugger with the (PD) "Causeway Dos Extender"
that's a lot like TD. It will only do it's own "Causeway" apps, at
present. I've often thought that it could probably be modified to an
open source TD-alike... for dos. For Linux, almost none of it would be
useable, but you *might* get a clue how to manage a TD-like UI from
it... if someone were so foolish as to attempt such a thing...

http://www.devoresoftware.com/freesource/cwsrc.htm

Best,
Frank

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