Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 1992 10:45:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Andrew B Stellman <as7l+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	debugger questions

I was thrilled to find GCC for the PC. I'm quite happy with it, and was
literally tickled pink to compile X programs for dv/x. 

The one sore spot, so to speak, is debug32. I've been told that debug32
is "not for the weak-hearted", but that doesn't begin to describe it,
really. You see, I've spent my sheltered life with Turbo Debugger [1.5,
I like it better than 2.0, actually]. In fact, some friends of mine
actually wrote their own debugger in the TD style. 

I suppose my questions are thus: 

1. Is debug32 the only debugger I can run to debug GCC programs in DOS?
If so, does anyone have a comprehensive list of useful operations? What
I'm really shooting for is something as painless as gdb.

2. Is there any way to translate the symbol information from the
debug32-readable format to something readable by Borland's Turbo
Debugger? I realize that this is probably a pipe dream; I'm pretty sure
the EXE's are in totally different formats. However, if anyone has any
technical info on EXE structure of both GCC and Borland symbol info, I'd
muchly appreciate.

Thanks,
Andy
<roo+@cmu.edu>

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