Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:41:52 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Laurent DOT CHARLES AT st DOT com
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Re: Remote gdb 
In-Reply-To: <H000030d03fdec68@MHS>
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On Wed, 8 Jan 1997 Laurent DOT CHARLES AT st DOT com wrote:

[...]
> 
> 1) MOSS
> I know a bit about MOSS. I chose not to use it because; I already started
> sucessful works with djgpp, I don't know any application under MOSS (tell me
> your experience), it's very important to me to have the same base of tools (gcc
> 2.7.2 and co) for all our targets (msdos/WinX/sunos) and I must admit I was too
> lazy to really test the stuff.
[...]

MOSS uses a patched binutils-2.6 and a patched gcc-2.7.2
I've built it successfully (but didn't do serial-line debugging) under
IRIX 5.3 and Linux 2.x and what I must say is: it's nice, the DOS extender
is OK, it has (probably) better POSIX-signal handling than DJGPP, but:

  - it don't support DPMI (a big wheeze, IMHO)
  - the libc sucks

well (2) above might be just my opinion, but I couldn't get anything
bigger than "hello world" to compile. To be honest, all I tried to build
was "sox" the soundfile converter, and when that didn't work on the first
try, I rm -f'd all the MOSS files on my UNIX box..  8O


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