From: Cesar Rabak <csrabak AT uol DOT com DOT br>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GDB
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:54:21 -0300
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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> 
> GDB is available as an executable program on _all_ the platforms it
> supports, including DJGPP.  There's no such thing as GDB library, and
> you cannot produce one from the GDB distribution, on any platform.  It
> is a long-standing goal of GDB development to provide such a library,
> but GDB is not there yet.

So then what's the purpose of libgdb.a which comes in the gdb package?

TIA

Cesar