Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 14:23:25 -0500
From: jshumate AT wrdis01 DOT robins DOT af DOT mil ( Shumate Jason;WR-ALC/DSMDC)
Subject: Re: thanks and GNUish advocacy
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

In your message of 11 Mar 1993 at 1409 EST, you write:
> 
> The main rival for GCC isn't BC, TC nor ZTC, but Watcom and Intel code
> builder. I think Watcom managed to make their 32 bit code run under
> windows. But this was easier for them to do because they have control
> over their executable file format. With djgpp we are stuck with the
> a.out format, which is nice but cannot be ported to DPMI 0.9.
> 
Huh?  I thought that DJGPP didn't support DPMI 0.9 because DJ himself
felt that Microsoft should have supported DPMI 1.0 and wasn't willing to
add 0.9 support, not that the a.out format made it impossible to support
0.9.  Please correct me if I am wrong.

> DJGPP main problem is gdb, but I hope that someone will correct that
> one day. But if you have a 486-DX or a x87 you can use emx gdb.
> 
GDB under EMX works fine on a 387 we have here at work.  You don't need a
486 to run it.  Discussion in the past was that the current format of go32
made it impossible to support gdb.  I wouldn't mind debug32 if I could turn
off the assembly listing and just see the C source code.  My biggest gripe
is that IMHO debug32 is really poorly documented.  It would probably be
more useful to many of us if it had a decent page or two of examples 
showing how to use it.  I have had all kinds of trouble using it without
any examples to follow.

> Regards,
> Rami
> 

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