Advanced Debugger
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| Original author(s) | Stephen R. Bourne |
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| Developer(s) | AT&T Bell Laboratories |
| Initial release | January 1979 |
| Operating system | Unix and Unix-like |
| Type | Command |
The advanced debugger adb is the standard UNIX debugger found on Solaris 1 and 2, HP-UX, SCO and Venix. It is the successor of a debugger called db.
Overview
The initial version was written by Stephen R. Bourne.[1] ADB is the standard debugger on Solaris and the Solaris kernel debugger kadb that was introduced with SunOS-3.5 (1986) is a minor variant of adb.
A version of ADB was integrated into the BSD kernel as a kernel debugger.[citation needed]
On Solaris, ADB was replaced by the Modular Debugger mdb with Solaris 8 (2000) and the ADB command-line interface now is emulated by mdb when it is called as adb. Mdb has become OpenSource with OpenSolaris.
See also
- DBX, the symbolic debugger
References
- ^ McIlroy, M. D. (1987). A Research Unix reader: annotated excerpts from the Programmer's Manual, 1971–1986 (PDF) (Technical report). CSTR. Bell Labs. 139.
External links
- A Tutorial Introduction to ADB. J. F. Maranzano, S. R. Bourne / Bell Laboratories
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