Advanced Debugger

For the command used to communicate with an Android system, also named adb, see Android Debug Bridge.

The advanced^{[citation needed]} debugger adb is a debugger that first appeared in Seventh Edition UNIX.^[1] It is found on Solaris, HP-UX, SCO and Venix. It is the successor of a debugger called db.

adb

Original author(s)	Stephen R. Bourne
Developer(s)	AT&T Bell Laboratories
Initial release	January 1979; 46 years ago (1979-01)
Operating system	Unix and Unix-like
Type	Command

Overview

The initial version was written by Stephen R. Bourne.^[2]

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 open source with OpenSolaris.^[3] The SunOS kernel debugger kadb that was introduced with SunOS 3.5 (1986) is a minor variant of adb.

See also

• dbx