From: wemccaug AT prairienet DOT org (Wendy E. McCaughrin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: fsdb and cpp
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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 22:47:12 GMT
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In a previous article, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii) says:

>
>On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Scott J. McCaughrin wrote:
>
>>  Since I seem to have lost my documentation on 'fsdb':
>>  what do alt-W and alt-S mean in that debugger, and
>>  what do function-keys F3 and F4 do?
>
>The docs are built into FSDB.  Just press F1 inside the debugger and
>read there.

 Thanks, but that was my first solution, and FSDB failed to respond to:
 F1, cntrl-F1, Shift-F1, or Shift-cntrl-F1. Still wondering ...

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>>  What is the status of 'cpp'? I find that it seems
>>  unable to process conditionals (like #ifndef), with
>>  the result that even simple #include's fail.
>
>You are probably invoking an incorrect program.  Use "gcc -E" instead,
>and you will never have these problems.
>
  I found the bug to be in RHIDE (as others have reported here); gxx
  and gcc handle gpp just fine at command level.