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From: royce3 AT i-link DOT net (Royce E. Mitchell III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Running djgpp & djgdb under windows environment.
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1995 19:54:04 GMT
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Marc Singer <nbn.nbn.com!sapien!elf> wrote:

>According to Eddy  Siauwidjaja:
>> 
>> 
>> Is there any body can help me with the following problem ?
>> I have installed djgpp & djgdb on a DOS machine with Windows 3.11
>> running.
>> 
>> I tried to use gcc & go32 -d gdb which is OK under DOS environment.
>> But when I go to windows environment, I open a new MS-DOS prompt,
>> then try to do the same thing, the following happen :
>> - Whenever I use a floating point, the program freezes (including the
>> the Windows Environment)
>> - I can't use the debugger even with go32 -d gdb-dpmi switch.
>> 
>> Have any body found this problem before ?
>> 

>I use DOS to debug DJGPP programs.  Windows 95 appears to work, too.
>But I am also using DJGPPP v2.0. 

The readme states, if I recall correctly, that floating point does not
work under Windows for V1, but that it does for V2.  Also, there's a
diff. debugger you're supposed to use when you're in windows.