From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id:	<9901150321.AA14088@clio.rice.edu>
Subject:	Re: dbgcom.c
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:21:30 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To:	<Pine.A41.4.05.9901130956180.52332-100000@ieva01.lanet.lv> from "Andris Pavenis" at Jan 13, 99 10:01:15 am
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> > Why can't we just fix the one in libc.a?
> 
> I need to do some fixes there that is only needed for debuggers.
> Also seems I'll have to add additional code there to better support
> keyboard interrupt hooking. I have already some limited support
> of it however debugger still is not getting SIGINT when for example
> Allegro keyboard handler is installed. There is rather easy way how to
> fix this and perhaps exceptn.S is best place where to do this.
> All these changes are not needed for normal programs. Therefore 
> I prefer to have modified version in libdbg.a

It is critical for maintenance purposes that the code be in a single 
file(s).  You may want to have conditional compiles, or a compile time
flag to handle this, but it does need to be a single piece of code.

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