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Line 10: \| author = [[Stephen R. Bourne]] \| developer = [[AT&T Bell Laboratories]] \| released = {{Start date and age\|1979\|1\|br=y}} \| latest release version = \| latest release date = Line 18: \| website = }} The advanced{{cn\|date=April 2024}} debugger '''adb''' is ~~the~~a ~~standard~~[[debugger]] ~~UNIX~~that first appeared in [[~~debugger~~Seventh Edition UNIX]].<ref>{{man\|1\|adb\|v7}}</ref> It is found on [[Solaris (operating system)\|Solaris]] ~~1 and 2~~, [[HP-UX]], [[OpenServer\|SCO]] and [[Venix]]. It is the successor of a debugger called '''db'''. ==Overview== The initial version was written by [[Stephen R. Bourne]].<ref name="reader">{{cite tech report \|first1=M. D. \|last1=McIlroy \|authorlink1=Doug McIlroy \|year=1987 \|url=https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/reader.pdf \|title=A Research Unix reader: annotated excerpts from the Programmer's Manual, 1971–1986 \|series=CSTR \|number=139 \|institution=Bell Labs \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730004547/https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/reader.pdf \|archive-date=2023-07-30 \|url-status=dead}}</ref> ~~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.~~ OnADB was provided with Solaris until Solaris 8 (2000), ~~ADB~~when it was replaced by the [[Modular Debugger~~\|Modular Debugger mdb~~]] (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~~[[open source]] with [[OpenSolaris]].<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Solaris performance and tools DTrace and MDB techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris 0131568191, 9780131568198 \|url=https://dokumen.pub/solaris-performance-and-tools-dtrace-and-mdb-techniques-for-solaris-10-and-opensolaris-0131568191-9780131568198.html \|access-date=2023-06-06 \|website=dokumen.pub \|language=en}}</ref> The SunOS 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.{{cn\|date=January 2015}}~~ ▲On Solaris, ADB was replaced by the [[Modular Debugger\|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.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Solaris performance and tools DTrace and MDB techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris 0131568191, 9780131568198 \|url=https://dokumen.pub/solaris-performance-and-tools-dtrace-and-mdb-techniques-for-solaris-10-and-opensolaris-0131568191-9780131568198.html \|access-date=2023-06-06 \|website=dokumen.pub \|language=en}}</ref> ==See also== *[[dbx (debugger)\|dbx]] ==References== Line 39 ⟶ 37: [[Category:Debuggers]] {{programming-software-stub}}