Re: Improving debugging (gdb) support

[Alexandre Julliard]

Eric Pouech  writes:
> For pointer deref, one quick solution is to add one command to gdb which
> converts a segmented pointer into a linear address. Then this linear 
> address can be used in any gdb command (it'll much more harder to
> add segmented pointers support though out every expression)

This would be pretty painful to use; and you'll need more than that to
be able to step through code and see what you are doing. This is a big
limitation of gdb, and it's the main reason we wrote the wine debugger
in the first place.