fayne@tellab5.tellabs.com (Jeffrey Fayne) (03/21/90)
Does anybody know of a way to use Codeview (or TurboDebug) on a C
program linked with Plink86+ ? According to the Jan 29th issue of
PC Week, Plink will be supporting Codeview sometime in the future, however
I haven't heard of a new version yet. I'm pretty much committed to using
Plink, so switching back to the MS linker would be out of the question.
I understand .RTlink supports Codeview, but switching to that would be
cost prohibitive (already forked out $$$ for plink86). It would seem
to me that to stay competitive, adding Codeview support should be
the number one priority for changes to plink.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jeff
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My understanding (quite possibly wrong) is that neither CodeView or TD support overlays. I can only imagine that you're using plink for it's overlay capabilities, which exceed those of MS-LINK. However, all is not lost. A new version of MS C is about to be released (version 6.0) with supposed built-in support for overlays and EMS usage. I would imagine that MS will upgrade CodeView to support the new compiler. Also, Borland recently announced an upgrade to TD. Don't know whether it supports overlays, thou, but I doubt it since the debug information is kept in the object files in a proprietary format.