On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > > > > That's the problem! GDB *doesn't* support all the language features > > that Object Pascal offers, so some things cannot be debugged. This is > > not a Lazarus issue, but a limitation of GDB with the Object Pascal > > language. And I have heard the comments about trying to implement new > > features in GDB - apparently you do NOT want to go there! > > Are you aware of the fact that Marc already started a debugger? It's > somewhere in the lazarus repository. It uses dwarf as debugging > information. dwarf is good enough for most object pascal constructs, if > it is missing someting, it can be probably extended (I wrote the dwarf > generator for FPC). I'am also willing to invest some time in a debugger > written in pascal because the text mode ide has to get rid of libgdb > because it is deprecated. Using the command line interface to integrate > gdb into the ide is imo no option: it is slow and I never saw a good gdb > gui front end. Finally getting rid of GDB: This is VERY good news indeed :-) Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
