On 12/09/2011 19:08, Martin wrote:
On 12/09/2011 18:32, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 12 Sep 2011, at 14:07, Martin wrote:
Anyone care to comment on those ideas?
Are they worth to be made a feature request?
And if so, which of the proposed ideas should be made into a feature
request?
I really don't like hacks like that. They will have to be maintained
almost forever because tools will rely on them, just like the
previously mentioned hack for shortstrings (they're also represented
using a fake record).
While not a complete solution either, couldn't you use the
information from the Lazarus codetools to figure out which properties
exist? If that's currently not possible because you don't know which
unit the type is declared in: DWARF supports adding information about
where an entity is declared to the debug information. While FPC
currently does not do that, this is something that could be added if
it would help you.
A less drastic idea:
Currently properties that map to a field are already present in dwarf
(again why not in stabs?).
Could not properties mapping to a function be implemented the same way
=> normal functions are already listed in "ptype" so
public
property Counter: Integer read GetCounter
could appear the same as the function "GetCounter" ?
In that case at least the list of available symbols is complete. The
only thing that then would need codetools involved was to check if the
name is a property and not a function/field.
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