dbx (debugger)

Dbx (debugger)
Developer(s) Oracle Corporation
Initial release 1981
Operating system Unix-like
Type Debugger
License Free for download and use as described in the Sun Studio product license.

DBX is a source-level debugger found primarily on Solaris, AIX, IRIX, Tru64 UNIX, Linux and BSD operating systems. It provides symbolic debugging for programs written in C, C++, Pascal, FORTRAN and Java. Useful features include stepping through programs one source line or machine instruction at a time. In addition to simply viewing operation of the program, variables can be manipulated and a wide range of expressions can be evaluated and displayed.

History

DBX was originally developed at University of California, Berkeley, by Mark Linton during the years 1981-1984 [1] and subsequently made its way to various vendors who had licensed BSD.

Availability

Besides being provided to various vendors through BSD, DBX has also found its way into other products:

See also

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Notes

  1. Linton 1990

References


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