Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 13:35:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Andrew B Stellman <roo+@cmu.edu>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: 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).

What's been asked in this last round of questions seems to me to be more
legitimate requests than simple gripes about not having GDB for dos. A
print function similar to GDB's shouldn't be too difficult. A switch to
turn off asm code would also be nice. Altering the format of the current
list command to make it easier to display source code. Being able to
more easily display source code several lines at a time. The most
difficult thing, I would think, would be to have a function that would
step through and over lines from the C source.

None of this sounds very difficult to me. Of course, I don't know that
I'd be able to do it myself. (Especially seeing as how I don't have
source for debug32). But that's as may be, this batch of requests
doesn't sound too difficult to deal with.

DJ, how about your opinion?

Andy