Subject:	Re: Debuggers
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date:	Fri, 19 May 1995 14:24:17 +0100 (BST)
From:	"B.S.Runnacles" <B DOT S DOT Runnacles AT soton DOT ac DOT uk>

If you're looking for a source level debugging environment like CV or 
Borland C, you'll be dissapointed.  GDB provides source code information
i.e it will give you the line that a particular section of the assembler
corresponds to (this is implicit in the symbol table of the code), but any
form of stepping at source level is not available.  The GDB does not
present itself very well, everything being command line driven (i.e no
menus etc..).  

Personally I think that there is a definate need for an easy to use 
true source level debugger, unfortunately I haven't the expertise to do so.
I think the reason why people still buy MSC and such is because of the lack 
of easy to use, consistant, tools for GNU.

Yours

Ben Runnacles
Image, Speech and Intelligent Systems Group
University ofr Southampton, UK.

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