Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 09:15:42 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ivan Hamer <ticica AT io DOT org>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: FSDB problems
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On Thu, 9 May 1996, Ivan Hamer wrote:

>    How do you source level debugging in FSDB? I've heard somewhere
> that was not possible, but still there are some indications in the
> program that loading the source file (or module) can be done. Maybe I
> have an old version? 

FSDB will show the source code as comments to the machine code, so you 
almost have source-level debugging.  The only thing that you cannot do is 
to examine expressions using C syntax which includes structures and such.

>   Anyway, I would like to know what are tho advantages and
> disadvantages of most commonly used debuggers.

GDB is much more powerful, but IMHO doesn't have enough features for
debugging low-level code (although it can display and step into machine
code).  It also can't switch between the application screen and its own
display, so you get them mixed.