Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 09:58:13 +0200
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> From: "Luckie" <luckie AT netvigator DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 14:40:52 +0800
> 
> I'm also examining the feasibility of using ddd in DOS. Do you think it's
> possible?

It's a long time since I looked at DDD.  Whether it could be ported to
DJGPP depends on how does it interact with GDB.  If it runs GDB as an
inferior subprocess, redirecting its standard handles to a pipe, this
cannot work with DJGPP without massive changes.

The easiest port of such programs to DJGPP would be to modify GDB to
be a library, then link that library with the GUI front-end, and fake
the usual Unix fork/exec paradigm into starting the library's
top-level code.  That's what RHIDE does, essentially.