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From: srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dr. Srodawa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Question about debuggers for xenix
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Date: 12 Sep 90 16:27:22 GMT
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In article <26ed5ed0.3824@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> gritchie@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Gary Ritchie) writes:
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>I've seen people compile quite a few GNU programs under xenix.  Is there
>a reason I've never seen GDB brought to xenix?

GDB expects a.out format executable files.  Xenix generates COFF format
object files (still placed in the file a.out).  You can convert the
whole Xenix library to the a.out form, but then you lose the ability
to use the standard Xenix products.  There probably is light at the end
of the tunnel as work is progressing on GLD and probably GDB to
generate COFF.  Ron.

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