19 Jun
2021
19 Jun
'21
11:50 p.m.
Although upon reflection, I think what I did was fix 'adb' and call it
'db'. Haven't had my coffee yet this morning.
-rob
On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 7:49 AM Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
For v8 or thereabouts, I spent some time fixing some
fundamental bugs in
db and found that it was arcane but remarkably powerful. Since it was lower
level, it avoided the endemic debugging problem of misleading you about
your program: All it could do was tell you what the machine was doing.
(Cdb, sdb, and adb were, at least in my experience, always lying to you.) I
may be the only person who appreciated db fully. Once the bugs were gone
you really could use it to good effect, as long as you understood the CPU.
But it was buggy and arcane, no question about that.
-rob
On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 6:46 AM Richard Salz <rich.salz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I remember compiling and playing Langston's
"empire" that I was told came
from a decompiled executable. This was in the 4.2 days.