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Developer button
The 'developer button' or 'programmer switch' on some Macs is actually an NMI (Non-Maskable Interrupt) switch that drops you into a kernel level debugger in pre-OS X. There is a very rudimentary debugger built into the ROMs of the machines that essentially only allows you to peek, poke and jump in memory. No sane developer ever uses that. If you need to do any real low-level debugging in the old OS you would normally install MacsBug which is a much more powerful low-level debugger that overrides the ROM one and gives you tremendous power - stack traces, formatted memory dumps, symbol dumps, macros and all sorts of stuff. Oh, the memories... |
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