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In what way is (or was) it the "standard" debugger in Solaris? dbx is also provided, and is a lot better at doing source-level debugging. Combine the two bits about ADB in Solaris.
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ADB was provided with Solaris until Solaris 8 (2000), when it was replaced by the [[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> The Solaris 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}}
 
==See also==