Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:36:33 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Emacs 19.34 again
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On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>
>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. 
I can do the C part with Emacs sources. Do you know anyone to manage the ELisp
part?

Mark

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