Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 19:41:33 +0300
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> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:30:45 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
> 
> A side remark: Debugging is a bit hard in this area, since gdb doesn't
> know what the type __djgpp_memory_handle_list is. Probably because the
> actual variable is defined in an assembly module, without any type
> information. Couldn't we move the definition into some C module, and let
> the asm just reference it?

I guess we could move __djgpp_memory_handle_list out of assembly, but
are you really sure this will help?  I thought the problem was that it
is defined in the library, which lacks sufficient debug info, not
because it's defined in assembly.

You could always cast the references with the appropriate type, of
course.  It's a bit cumbersome, but if you use the GDB scripting
language, you could go through that just once.

Thanks for working on this.