Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 17:33:37 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Emacs 19.34 again
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On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Mark Habersack wrote:

> I use Emacs on Linux X-Windows and it's just a lot easier to debug using the
> 'visual' interface. It would be great to enable Emacs to work as GDB client.
> Does anyone have experience in writing GDB front ends?

GDB distribution can be used to build a debugging library, which can then
be linked into an application (a front end).  That's the way RHIDE uses to
let you debug from within the IDE.  You should in principle be able to do
the same in DOS Emacs, but I suspect that some non-trivial changes should
be made in the ELisp code that supports debugging from within Emacs,
because it was written assuming async processes.