On 12 Sep 2011, at 15:23, r...@rdos.net wrote:
Why would anybody want to concentrate on gdb, which is an ancient debugger,
It's only 7 years older than FPC (GDB: 1986; FPC: 1993).
that does not have a modern GUI integrated into it,
A GUI should not be integrated in a debugger. You don't want to recompile a debugger depending on whether you use KDE or GNOME. However, what is useful and what GDB does lack, is the ability to use the debugger in library form.
and that was not built to handle Pascal in the first place?
GDB is built for supporting multiple languages. E.g., its ADA support has been much better than its C++ support for a long time (although C+ + support is getting fairly good nowadays too).
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