From: mcastle AT cs DOT umr DOT edu
Subject: Re: gdb for DOS???
To: pef AT dcs DOT qmw DOT ac DOT uk
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 11:50:29 CST
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> 
> Is there any 'gdb' for DOS? I am looking for a debugger that
> has a 'print' command, capable of printing (preferably in
> decimal) the values of *local* variables.
> 

Well, having finally played around with gdb a little bit on our NeXT's, I 
have found a few features of it that I do miss in debug32.  Maybe someone
could look into the possibility of adapting the features of gdb that do the
print and things (though shouldn't rely on multiprocessing capabilities, 
should they?) to work as part of debug32?

Hmm... thinking about the person from Cygnus who modified debug32 to work
over serial lines and use gdb on a unix box: did you have to modify gdb in
anyway?  And was there any success in running it on 2 pc's connected (both
running dos?)  Maybe support for one machine doing both under something like
desqview?

> debug32's "where" and "whereis" only give global variables and
> functions.
> 
> Thank you in advance for your help.
> 
> Panayotis
> 
> PS I am running GNU release 1.04 (I don't remember the number
> of "debug32").
> 

hmm... this last bit makes me think that it may be time to start posting a 
regular FAQ to this list?  

v1.0x is for go32/debug32 which is the dos extender (and package as a whole,
kinda).

2.2.2 is gcc/g++ as distributed by the GNU project.

mrc