Graeme Geldenhuys wrote on wo, 11 mrt 2009:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Jonas Maebe
<[email protected]> wrote:
GDB is designed for any language it has maintainers for (just like FPC is
"designed" for all platforms that have active maintainers, and languishes or
Probably true, but it's leans a lot more to C/C++ support than any
other language.
It supports ADA at least as well. In fact, it probably supports ADA
better than C++ (although C++ support got a big overhaul the new gdb
based on the Archer branch in Fedora Core 11, so it may finally get up
to speed).
DWARF is much more than the "flavour of the month". It's a very generic
debug format, which is also specifically defined as vendor-extensible.
I downloaded the latest DWARF3 spec - last updated in December 2005.
Quite a while back. Is this good or bad?
Neither. They are working on DWARF4 though, if that's what you mean.
See here for a number of reported and resolved issues in that version:
http://www.dwarfstd.org/Issues.php?type=closed3
Or is the DWARF3 spec so
good/flexible it caters for any new language features since 2005?
I don't know of a single Object Pascal developer ever proposing new
extensions to be incorporated into the DWARF standard.
This is correct, although it's not because the GDB guys hate or don't care
about Pascal. In fact, they are always very welcoming and helpful when
someone submits a patch for any language (in correcting errors/making it
Umm, and that means I have to go back and study C language again. I
left C/C++ for a reason. Object Pascal is a much better language in my
eyes, and I'm a lot more productive with the latter as well!
Me too. But I'm also more productive when submitting a few patches and
bug reports against gdb every now and then, than when completely
rewriting and maintaining a debugger clone (even if written in the
cleanest Object Pascal in the world) on at least 5 platforms.
Not to mention that in many real world projects (at least on Mac OS X), a
debugger is pretty useless if it does not also support C, C++ and
Objective-C (there's a lot of mixed language development on Mac OS X).
Well, I only work with the Free Pascal Compiler (and occasionally dab
in Java). This issue I am raising relates directly to Free Pascal
Compiler and the Object Pascal language, so I don't give a toss about
any other languages or supporting them. After all, they have GDB. ;-)
That's useless when people combine Pascal and C code in a single
program. And you may not do that, but I'm not developing FPC only for
you.
c) bugs in the tooltip feature? (does it work if you try to get the value in
another way?)
It always works if I use log files. :-)
I meant using the debugger, obviously.
Jonas
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