[Info-vax] ada archives and debug

[Scott Dorsey]

Johnny Billquist  <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>> What's wrong with simply using gdb or are you saying that it wasn't
>> possible for you to build gdb for a VMS target ?
>
>I seriously doubt that gdb will work on VMS, unless someone have ported 
>gdb. And this requires a more complex form of porting than just getting 
>the compiler to accept the source, and the libraries to be available 
>with the right functions.

I remember back in the late 1980s there being a vax port of gdb, which
you had to use with code compiled with gcc.  If you compiled with gcc
you could debug with gdb, but if you compiled with vax c you had to use
DEBUG.  But DEBUG didn't work with gcc.  It was generally awful.

But somebody at some point did make the attempts to port.
--scott

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