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- From: mcastle@cs.umr.edu (Michael R Castle)
- Subject: Re: Need help with Phar Lap DOS Extender and assembly
- References: <g8trrpd@lynx.unm.edu> <3JAN199313402308@zeus.tamu.edu> <1993Jan4.153250.9049@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:58:41 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.153250.9049@mksol.dseg.ti.com> daniel@mksol.dseg.ti.com (daniel lemon) writes:
- >In article <3JAN199313402308@zeus.tamu.edu> s0r1282@zeus.tamu.edu (RAVET, STEVEN) writes:
- >>The real reason I am posting is to recommend a different compiler, GCC from
- >>the Free Software Foundation. It comes with a dos extender that supports
- >>VCPI, ie QEMM, DesqView, etc. It is bundled with a debugger, assembler,
- >>profiler, etc.
- >
- >Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that debugger a little primitive?
- >I tried out this package, and the debugger wasn't much better than the
- >DOS DEBUG.EXE command. It had no support for source-level debugging.
- >(If it actually will do source-level debugging, please tell me; I need
- >to know. We'd be using it if it did.)
-
- debug32 can do a little bit more now than it used to. If the source in
- in the current directory, it will display it as you go along, and you
- can go things like
-
- g file.c#50
-
- to run till you hit line 50 of file.c
-
- Still not line by line debuging, 'step' still takes you through one machine
- instruction at a time, but at least now you can see where you are at (listing
- code is much the same, you see the assembler along with the c source).
-
- If you have a unix machine nearby, someone from cygnus has managed to do
- some changes to debug32 to allow use of gdb using it's serial line protocol
- to control debug32 (so you are in essence using gdb). More info can be
- found from the djgpp mailling list.
-
- Hey, if you don't like, source is there, feel free to change it! If you
- really need it right away, you can probably pay someone to put it in for
- you (most of the people of doing it in their spare time, remember, and
- dj is taking some time off of it due to an upcoming addition to his family).
-
-
- Btw, I saw another post mentioning problems getting to barnacle. The address
- IS barnacle.erc.clarkson.edu, but there do appear to be some (unannounced)
- problems. They may just be doing some maintainence. djgpp 1.09 can also
- be found on simtel20 in pd1:<msdos.djgpp>, could possibly be on garbo (i'm
- sure 1.08 is, not sure if they've upgraded), and a T1 link can be found at
- ftp.math.niu.edu (this last also has several ports to dos using djgpp, such
- as many fsf packages (ls, sort, cat, tail, head, mv, rm, etc), zoo (much
- faster than standard dos version), and others). Dir for niu are pretty
- obvious.
-
- regards,
- mrc
- (djgpp hacker)
-
- --
- Mike Castle .-=NEXUS=-. Life is like a clock: You can work constantly
- mcastle@cs.umr.edu and be right all the time, or not work at all
- S087891@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc
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