Message-Id:	<m10jlqZ-0006NeC@galjas.cs.vu.nl>
Date:	Tue, 18 May 99 17:31:59 MET DST
From:	Michel de Ruiter <mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl>
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: gdb 4.18 for DJGPP (alpha)
Reply-To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

>    Two of them were actual bugs in readline (seems like nobody revised
>    that code since v1.x days, because it used `memset' to clear the
>    screen); I can actually cause GDB to crash if I invoke commands
>    that use that code.

Actually, I *have* looked at that code (after Daisuke Aoyama did too),
I reported the necessary changes for the previous version of Readline
to its maintainer. It mostly came down to deactivating the v1-support
for v2. The changes did not appear in Readline 4.0 (I think because
they were too DOS-specific), but I have not had any negative response.

Then I suggested to remove the DJGPP v1 support from Readline
altogether, but I did not get any reaction on that either. All that is
really needed is building bare GNU termcap and Readline for DJGPP and
not providing any /etc/termcap, resulting in a dumb terminal.

The (old) Readline zips on Simtelnet contains most changes IIRC,
applied by someone else (because I was too lazy to build them :),
based on http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter/rl22.dif .

Hope this helps.

Groente, Michel.

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