Date: Wed, 18 May 94 10:28:30 -0400
From: dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: gdb on windows

> it runs on Ms/Dos straight, but doesn't run under windows
> at all (I get an infernal stack backtrace under windows).

Yup, known bug.  gdb crashes in DPMI mode (in malloc, no less!).
Haven't sat down to find it yet.

> what type of memory manager does straight DOS have?
> can I run gdb under windows with this?

without DPMI, go32 acts as the virtual memory manager, with help from
programs like QEMM and himem.sys.