Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 14:46:58 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Debugging information in COFF/EXE files
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On 14 Jun 1998, George Foot wrote:

> At the moment I am using the syms module, but it does not support
> location of local variables on the stack, among other things.  I have
> not been able to look at GDB because downloading such large sources is
> impractical for me at the moment.

I don't know enough about DJGPP debug support, but GDB certainly supports 
local (automatic) variables.  If that means it has to use more COFF 
debugging info than the syms module, then GDB certainly does that.