Re: [tiemu-devel] TiEmu v2.81 without GDB release {Scanned for spam & virus}

[Kevin K. <kev...@ch...>]

> I have just released at the usual location (ticalc.org) a special build of
> TiEmu3. This build does not include the GDB debugger but a VTI-style one
> (almost the same as TiEmu2 without the license issues).

I should clarify that all the VTI-style debugging facilities are available in 
the GDB-enabled releases too. (They use the disassembler from GDB, which 
allows them to show label names and such, but otherwise the ASM-level 
debugging windows are identical to those in the no-GDB version.)

In GDB-enabled releases, you get:
* C-level debugging through the linked-in Insight GDB frontend
* ASM-level debugging through the built-in TiEmu debugger
* symbolic information from GDB in the VTI-style disassembly window
* seamless integration between the C-level and ASM-level debuggers

In no-GDB releases, you get:
* ASM-level debugging through the built-in TiEmu debugger

Note that it is possible to build no-GDB binaries from the full GDB-enabled 
tarballs, just configure with --disable-gdb. (If you're using my 20060524 
snapshot, make sure to apply tiemu3-20060524-fix-disable-gdb.diff, this is 
fixed in SVN.)

If you're packaging TiEmu for other people to use, I recommend always enabling 
GDB, it's very useful for C programmers and it doesn't get into the way for 
others. (This remark doesn't apply to the Win32 binary packages, where we're 
intentionally providing both GDB-enabled and no-GDB binaries.)

        Kevin Kofler