On 08 Oct 2009, at 16:28, Paul Ishenin wrote:
I see only 3 features:
- Multi-byte and wide character set support
GDB has a new data type or what? Will fpc use that datatype?
It does not require any changes in FPC. Afaik it means that if you
have a widechar (or an array of widechar, or a pwidechar), GDB should
now interpret that data as utf-16 when printing it.
- Inlined functions are now supported
Currently I can't enter an inlined function using step into.
Breakpoints don't work in the inlined functions too. As I understand
now it will be possible to implement in fpc?
Yes
- GDB is now able to read compressed debug sections
What does this give? Smaller debug info?
Probably.
If so then will fpc support this?
When someone implements it. I assume that that if you use an external
assembler/linker, you can already use it today.
Maybe I missed some other gdb 7.0 new feature which is useful for
fpc/lazarus?
Reverse debugging sounds pretty useful to me (only supported under
Linux/i386 and Linux/x86_64 for now though, and has some limitations).
The Python scripting support could also be useful to create a standard
"library" of routines to print Pascal types in a nice way for which
native support in gdb is not yet present.
Jonas
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