Date:	Thu, 23 Sep 93 14:16:49 +0200
From:	pi92ae AT pt DOT hk-r DOT se (Andy addIRCt Eskilsson)
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	debugger how to

I don't have *any* hint of how to use the debug32 pprogram?
Anyone who could give me a fast tour of how to debug a simple c/c++
program.
The only thing I know are, that I need to compile with -g to include
debug information.
What I need to know for starters are:

*How to show the current c/c++ line I am on.
*How to display a named variable, how does this work with c++?
*set a breakpoint at a line/function
*a way of slowing down execution so I can read the figures flashing at
the rightmost top. (numbers)
*how to step line by line.
*hmm that ought to be all at the moment.. Well mayby one more thing..
Are there some kind of program type boundschecker or purify out there
who can check for illegal memory accesses and so on? That works with
djgpp, or is it up to me to do one ;)

Ahh well some questions that hopefully will enlighten me...
BTW an example of what I might need the debugger for...
I am constructing a "ram disk" (a school lab), now I want to see so
the variables from different while loops comes out as I want them to
and to check out so I havent written the && and nots wrong. 

	/andy
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