Message-Id: <199908032009.QAA01045@delorie.com>
From: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
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To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:50:43 +0200
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: GDB 4.18 for DJGPP
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

GDB 4.18 has been ported for DJGPP.

GDB is the GNU debugger to debug your programs on source level
niveau. It is a commandline driven driver with many very powefull
functions to analize your code and data.

It supports line by line debugging your program, setting breakpoints
(stopping your program at specified location) and watchpoints (stopping
your program at specified conditions on your data) and many many
other things. It is one of the most powerfull debuggers I have ever seen.

The current release 4.18 has many DJGPP specific changes already
applied so it is (compared with version 4.16) much more stable and
usable under DJGPP.

The distribution comes as usual for DJGPP in two separate archives:

gdb418b.zip    - the binary archive containing also the docs in INFO-
                       format

gdb418s.zip    - the sources already configured ready to rebuild the
                       binaries

The archives can be found on simtelnet under the following URL's

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gdb418b.zip

and 

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gdb418s.zip


Install the archive(s) like any other DJGPP package described
in the DJGPP FAQ, which means, copy them to any location
on your HD, let's say to c:/tmp, change to your root DJGPP
directory, let's say to c:/djgpp, and unzip there the archive preserving
the directory structure. After that PLEASE READ the file README.DJGPP
which will be located then in the directory gnu/gdb-418/ which will
describe more details.

GDB 4.18 is NOT only a bug-fix release. It has many inprovememnts
compared with GDB 4.16 and for any one who wants to use the power
of GDB it is strongly recommended to upgrad to version 4.18.

Of course, any program has still some bugs. If they are not directly
DJGPP related, please report them in the gdb related news groups.

OK, that's enough for now. I wish you good debugging with this long
awaited port of the GNU debugger.


Robert Hoehne
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