Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 92 12:38:03 EDT
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT athena DOT ctron DOT com>
To:	as7l+@andrew.cmu.edu
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	debugger questions

>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.

debug32 is IT.

>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.

gcc doesn't produce .exe's.  It produces a.out's.  TD cannot be used
to debug gcc's output.

DJ
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