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From: Claudio Santia` <c_santia AT net4u DOT it>
Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer;,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Are there strong debuggers for DJGPP?
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 01:05:48 +0200
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Hi guys,

I've read through some news here stating that DJGPP is a good package
for games development under DOS.  I tried to find out something more and
I downloaded the Eli Zaretskii's FAQ.  It was quite interesting, just on
an issue I need some more info: debugging.  In that document it is
written that there are two debuggers: FSDB and GDB.  The former is a
full-screen debugger similar to Turbo Debugger but it is stated that IT
ISN'T A SOURCE LEVEL DEBUGGER.  The latter is a powerful source level
debugger, but it uses a line-oriented user interface.

I consider debugging a hot feature so I ask to any user of DJGPP the
following:

1) Are there any alternatives to these two mentioned debuggers?  I will
prefer a source-level, full-screen debugger similar to Turbo Debugger
(to make an example).

2) Which are the real limitation of FSDB?  I do a lot of code in C++ and
I would like to spend less time as possible in dealing with ASM code.
I'm quite satisfied with Turbo Debugger (which I'm using for Windows
programs) and I'm interested in a comparison between FSDB and TD.

3) At first I cosidered buying WATCOM to develop Extended-DOS games.  Is
there any reason I would buy WATCOM instead of using DJGPP (I intend to
write games as a professional developer, so I need all the tools to
write and debug code as faster as possible)?

Please reply by e-mail too, since I don't check newsgroups very often.

Thank you very much for your help.

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