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The .o file is a COFF file.  COFF stands for Common Object File Format (or
there abouts), COFF is an executable file (just not in DOS :) so to create
the exe a stub loader is prefixed to it.

Sorry I can't help with the debugging part though.

Cheers,

leroy.


Paul Van Belinghen wrote:

> I am using Rhide 1.4 with Djgpp 2.02 on Win98.
>
> I found that I could not debug a program with Rhide (I tried c, ada, and
> fortran sources). Even though the "-g" option is used in compilation,
> Rhide still displays the "debug info not available" message when I try
> to step or trace. I found some other people who had this problem in this
> newsgroup but no one could explain it. I tried using -gstabs and -Wall
> but to no avail. Am I supposed to see a .coff file in the compilation
> directory? All I see is .ali, .o, and .exe produced. I tried "gcc -g
> file.c" from the command prompt, but still no .coff file - just a.exe.