- The Xinu Post-Mortem Debugger Desmond Liu and Barry Brachman Created Summer, 1991 Converted to HTML, January 1995 Introduction The Xinu Post-Mortem Debugger (PMD) is a utility for examining a Xinu core image. PMD is not a true debugger--it cannot set breakpoints, single step through code, or do anything that the more sophisticated debuggers do. Instead, PMD analyzes the state of Xinu after your ...www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/xinu/xinu.sun3/xref/pmd.html