NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/gnu/emacs/help/4801

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From: [e-mail] (Kenneth Whaley)
Subject: Is there a dbx-mode for DEC's Ultrix dbx?
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Organization: Kubota Pacific Computers Inc.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:20:27 GMT
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Unfortunately, DEC's Ultrix dbx outputs different strings  for breakpoints,
etc. than the dbx that all the "dbx.el"s I've found on the net are
written to work with.  If it were simply a matter of changing the
regexp of breakpoints, then I could get this to work, but
unfortunately the DEC dbx does not print out the file name at every
breakpoint, only the line number (and the breakpoint number, the function
name, and the PC).

The only way I see to get this to work would be to have the dbx-mode
do a "where", find the current stack frame (the one marked with a ">"),
and then go to that file and line number.

    (dbx) where
    >  0 main() ["tt.c":5, 0x120000d30]
    (dbx)

Since I'm not an EMACS lisp guru and I'm under tight schedules, I'm hoping
that someone else out there has written a dbx.el for DEC's Ultrix dbx that
can handle the "up", "down", "return", etc. commands, but mostly I'm just
interested in having a pointer into the source while I do "step" and
"next" commands.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    Ken Whaley

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Kenneth Whaley
Kubota Pacific Computer, Inc.
2630 Walsh Avenue
Santa Clara, CA.  95051