From:	Cesar Rabak <csrabak AT uol DOT com DOT br>
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Subject:	Re: gdb 5.0 and yamd
Date:	Thu, 18 Jan 2001 00:55:10 -0200
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Cesar Rabak wrote:
> 
> > Does this version of gdb already includes the modifications needed by
> > the yamd to check page protection?
> 
> No, it doesn't.  IIRC, the changes sent by Nate (I still have them,
> just not handy where I type this) involved changing the libdbg.a
> routines as well.  Since that's not done yet, the modifications to GDB
> would be useless.

Yes, you're right. 

> 
> (Unfortunately, I don't have enough time lately to develop the DJGPP
> port of GDB as well as I would like.  Volunteers are welcome to help.)

If we make the modifications, in order to submit the code and binaries
modified, is there any kind of regression tests? 

I'm asking this because the changes seem to be small. May I stumble in a
wall. . .

> 
> > Wishfully thinking, did anybody included similar mods in the
> > ladybug/fsdb debuggers as well (I mean in the distribution files)?
> 
> FSDB doesn't seem to be maintained these days, unfortunately.  The
> last changes were around v2.03 release, because changes in the library
> broke something there.  But no new features were added in a very long
> time...

I see. Well, let's see if we can get gdb 5.0 working with the patches... 

This weekend will download the sources and see.

Thanks,

Cesar

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