From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Porting DOS to linux
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Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 15:00:45 GMT
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On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 18:45:53 +0600 (LKT), Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel
<kalum AT lintux DOT cx> wrote:

>Actually in this respect I find that CWSDPMI+DJGPP is far more stricter
>for stray pointers and other memory problems than gcc+linux. I have found
>that CWSDPMI+DJGPP is the best environment for checking for this kind of
>problems, as GPF's, SIGSEGV's etc  are caught more readily than with
>linux.

I'd say straight DJGPP in CWSDPMI is second best.  The best AFAIK is
YAMD, yet another malloc() debugger.

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