On Wednesday 11 March 2009 11:28:27 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Well writing a new compiler is just such a big task and it didn't > prevent Florian from starting FPC. Having a 100% working debugger (no > matter if it takes a while to get there) is still much better in the > long run - for the developers and for the Free Pascal Compiler > project. Not to mention MSEide and Lazarus IDE could benefit from it > too. > > > The main problem with gdb is the communication by pipes and the not > > finished mi-interface, once the communication works and the workarounds > > for the missing mi-functions are done gdb is not bad. > > Well at least having our own object pascal based compiler, we will be > able to implement new features and fixes much quicker than GDB. > > I think it would be better to extend gdb for better FPC support.
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