Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 19:26:27 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:34:38 +1000
> 
> The only outstanding issue with regards to DJGPP and Win 2K with the
> available packages is that in Bash 2.05 the set command may be causing
> issues with re-configuring packages and as such you may not be able to
> re-configure or re-build the packages on Win 2K until this is resolved.

There's one more known issue, discovered a few days ago by Charles:
hardware-assisted breakpoints and watchpoints don't work.

More accurately, the functions in src/debug/common/dbgcom.c which are
invoked by all the debuggers to insert and remove hardware breakpoints
and watchpoints via DPMI functions (because debug registers cannot be
accessed directly under DPMI)--these functions seem to be broken on
W2K in some weird way.  (You can set a watchpoint, but once set, it
seems like it cannot be removed, and gets ``stuck'' in the DPMI host
until you kill the DOS box.)

As a result, edebug32 and FSDB are almost completely broken and barely
work, because they use hardware breakpoints for the first 4
breakpoints.  GDB does work as long as you dont use `hbreak' and
`watch' (or `rwatch'/`awatch') commands.