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Re: Does it work on Solaris?
- To: Marc Desmarais <mdesm2 at earthlink dot net>
- Subject: Re: Does it work on Solaris?
- From: Keith Seitz <keiths at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 15:05:59 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: <insight at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Marc Desmarais wrote:
> Will it work on Solaris? I presume so, since gdb and wish are available on
> Solaris as well as on Linux. But I don't like to make assumptions.
Yes, Insight will work on any platform supported by GDB, this includes
(but is not limited to) Windows 9x/NT/2000 (via Cygwin), Solaris, SunOS,
HPUX, AIX, Linux, and a bunch more.
> Does the GUI run in the wish command interpreter?
Sort of. The GUI is written in Tcl/Tk and C. I like to think of it as the
Tcl interpreter runs in gdb.
> How would you compare your debugger with UPS (people at work love it, but
> they haven't seen your screen shot, which look great!)
I'm sorry, UPS is a debugger with which I am not at all familiar. Perhaps
others on this mailing list will be able to provide you with a comparison.
Keith