From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Emacs or RHide
Date: 13 May 1997 03:52:45 GMT
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jon (quacci AT vera DOT com) writes:
> SUre, you should be using DJGPP! And Rhide should be exactly what you
> need, because it puts DJGPP squarely in a DOS-like environment.
> Without Rhide, I think you'll at first find compiling to be tedious
> and cryptic, and debugging almost impossible.

Oh? But we all know that a real hacker's debugger is up here *taps head* :)
It runs on his brain, not his computer... I do more debugging by staring at
the source and simulating program flow in my head, and dumping data files
and printeffing everything in sight and symifying than by using RHGDB. :)
And more SUCCESSFUL debugging too, if you must know. But, RHGDB has come
in handy once or twice, especially when the problem involved infinite
loops or recursion rather than an out and out crash or bad data or output.


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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh