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@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@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.
>>
>