Resent-Message-Id:	<Uf_BrfK00WALQ254kl AT andrew DOT cmu DOT edu>
Resent-Date:	Fri, 11 Dec 1992 13:28:59 -0500 (EST)
Resent-From:	Andrew B Stellman <roo+@cmu.edu>
Resent-To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Debugger
To:	roo+@cmu.edu (Andrew B Stellman)
Date:	Fri, 11 Dec 92 12:34:57 EST
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu>
Sender:	turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu

I've been reading this list for about 8 months now, and about every
six weeks a bunch of new fans comes on and says, hey, DJGPP is great
but where's the source-level debugger?
    If you want a debugger, port GDB or whatever yourself.  It's not
going to be easy: GDB apparently uses the strategy of watching from
another process---difficult to do under MSDOS.  But it should be
possible under DesqView, say.  DJGPP is a *port* of GCC.  DJ has
already gone far beyond the call of duty; lots of commercial products
get far worse support than DJ gives.  As I well know, he even suffers
fools gladly (he puts up with my occasional inanity, anyway).
Developing an appropriate multitasking interface to support GDB is way
out of the scope of support for DJGPP.
    Any volunteers?
    The alternative is to get yourself a Unix  with the full GCC
environment for development, then do the port using DJGPP.
-- 
 
Stephen Turnbull
The Ohio State University, Department of Economics
410 Arps Hall, 1945 N. High St., Columbus, OH  43210-1172  USA
Phone: (614) 292-0654  Fax: ...-3906  Email: turnbull DOT 1 AT osu DOT edu

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