From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann) Message-Id: <9901150321.AA14088@clio.rice.edu> Subject: Re: dbgcom.c To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:21:30 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: from "Andris Pavenis" at Jan 13, 99 10:01:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL20] Content-Type: text Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com > > Why can't we just fix the one in libc.a? > > I need to do some fixes there that is only needed for debuggers. > Also seems I'll have to add additional code there to better support > keyboard interrupt hooking. I have already some limited support > of it however debugger still is not getting SIGINT when for example > Allegro keyboard handler is installed. There is rather easy way how to > fix this and perhaps exceptn.S is best place where to do this. > All these changes are not needed for normal programs. Therefore > I prefer to have modified version in libdbg.a It is critical for maintenance purposes that the code be in a single file(s). You may want to have conditional compiles, or a compile time flag to handle this, but it does need to be a single piece of code.