From: myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
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Subject: no GUD from emacs in DOS...how debug?
Date: 9 Jan 1998 04:11:45 GMT
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I was going to ask the questions that Eli Z. answers below, but looked first in
the mail archives.  Now I have another question...

On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:09:54 +0300 (IDT) Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
wrote:
[Subject:   Re: Emacs GDB session problem ]
>
>On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Jiri Kubicek wrote:
>> Did you debug under Emacs ? I have tried compile and debug small >>Win32
>> GUI program using DJGPP and RSXNT. Compiling and GDB debugging is OK,
>> but I cannot debug under Emacs.
>
> The Emacs debugging interface isn't supported in the DJGPP port, > because
> it requires asynchronous processes to work.  This is explained in the
> MS-DOS chapter of the Emacs manual.
===============
In Mar. 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, alex alexander wrote:
>
>> Cant get emacs to run gdb with Meta-x dbg RETURN gives
>> 'cant load gud .. etc'
>> Can get compilation with Meta-x compile RETURN to work
>> and is very convenient.
>
> Gdb won't run from within Emacs under MS-DOS, sorry.  To do that, you 
> need to be able to run two programs (Emacs and the debugger) 
> concurrently, and DOS doesn't allow it (unless someone writes a 
> multitasker which could be linked into Emacs).

So, many months later, is anyone working on such a project?  And (I am thinking
of Eli Zaretskii specifically) I have heard of people who use emacs for
djgpp...do all those people learn to use the standalone gdb debugger?

If this is the case, and people are using emacs and then exitting to use gdb,
is that worth it?  After peeking at the man for gdb, it looks "un-convenient,"
but maybe with experience that could change.  I'm just looking for opinions. 
Obviously there is no right answer here.

--Ed (Myknees)