Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/14/12:44:10
"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com> writes:
> Try gdb, the GNU debugger. It's available from SimTel as
> v2gnu/gdb416b.zip. Or use the new RHIDE IDE, which has gdb as an
> integrated debugger.
he forgot the portability of DJGPP. GDB can debug a running Linux kernel :)
> DJGPP comes with a free DPMI host that is only 20k long. Borland
> (AFAIK) uses DOS4GW, which is 250k.
nah, I think Borland uses that RTM/DPMILOAD stuff. DOS4/GW is Watcom
> ones who provide the support. Borland has voice mail and "trained
> customer service representatives."
ugh. fools who think the web is a nifty new thing thought up by the Clinton
administration
> id Software wrote Quake in DJGPP. Need we say more?
Abrash mentioned a little pain about memset in his book. apparently his version
compiled as a byte move :)
> Advantages of Borland:
>
> Borland is Windows native. This is a big minus for DJGPP, but it is
> getting much closer. RSXNTDJ is an excellent package, but difficult to
> find resources for because Microsoft doesn't want free software butting
> in on their market.
the environment shouldn't make a difference in the executable format, or what
you can develop in. though one thing you almost definately need (especially
for X) is some form of framework or widget set.
> development and looking cooler every day. It also has GNU Emacs, which
> is as powerful as any IDE in existence. Advantage Borland? Maybe, but
> it's a lot closer than it may seem.
Emacs as powerful as an ide? You must have gotten an old version :) XEmacs
(Linux) has it's own graphical web browser, and is what I'm using for my
usenet reader :)
> Borland has more books written in support of it. Well, true, but the
> DJGPP Book Project is coming along... Besides, most of those books are
> crap.
not to mention the pains of converting borland->microsoft. DJGPP's big porblem,
the AT&T asm is close to being fixed, if it isn't already
> But back to DJGPP:
>
> Borland gets more bug reports in a week than DJGPP has gotten in its
> entire lifetime. True, much of this may be about its IDE, but doesn't
> this still indicate something significant?
free software always tends to be of higher quality. I had some idiots pick up
my modem line several times and dial, and I never got disconnected (Linux
rules :)
> Hope this helps!
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