From: Brett Porter Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: wanted: recommendation for a good debugger Date: 23 Oct 1997 07:04:37 GMT Organization: None provided Lines: 35 Message-ID: <62msu5$rc0$1e@195.26.68.19> NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.26.68.19 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP) In-Reply-To: <01bcd578$65320520$180867d1@default> from Newbie at "Oct 10, 97 12:31:55 pm" Dj-Gateway: from mailing list djgpp AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk > I'm just starting using rhide 1.4. Maybe it's just my inexperience, but I > found rhide's built-in debugger to be somewhat buggy, often times codes are > not shown properly. > > I wonder if anyone can suggest a good debugger? > Buggy? What do you mean when you say the codes are not shown properly? I found it great to use, especially coming from a Turbo Debugger background. Alternatives? Well there is GDB, but it is a text-based command line driven debugger. Apparently it can do more than RHGDB (the debugger built in to RHIDE), but I've found it is thousands of times harder to learn and use (but like I said, I've been spoilt by Turbo Debugger and the Borland IDE for too many years) There is also FSDB but it is assembly only, and fairly limited. Obsolete since RHIDE got a disassembler, as far as I'm concerned. I haven't used the MSDOS version of EMacs, but I'm sure it would have some sort of debugging capability. Brett -- "Give me ambiguity or give me something else" -- Brett Porter bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/3596 Humour, Programming, and more.