VMS vs. UNIX s/w development tools - query
Stephen J. Friedl
friedl at vsi.COM
Wed Apr 5 23:47:13 AEST 1989
In article <810033 at hpsemc.HP.COM>, gph at hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz) writes:
>
> VMS has debuggers that make the Unix debuggers look like the jokes that
> they are. The VMS debugger has a common command interface for C, Fortran,
> Cobol, and Pascal. I have not used it with Basic, but I bet it works on
> that language as well (compiled basic is a Big Deal on VMS--many, many
> applications are written in it, so don't laugh :-)).
When System V Release 4 comes out, the /proc interface will make
it possible for *phenomenal* debuggers to be built (as I'm told
already exist somewhere within AT&T). The ptrace(2) interface
has its limits, but /proc is not so encumbered. /proc is easier
to understand and is much higher performance.
/proc is cool. I wish I knew more about writing debuggers...
Steve
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