On 13 Sep 2011, at 12:59, Michael Schnell wrote:
On 09/13/2011 11:06 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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).
Unfortunately it seems to be hard (or close to impossible) to work
with the g* team(s) to have gdb (or gcc) provide Object Pascal
specific features :-( .
Don't insult people when you clearly don't have any experience
whatsoever in working with them.
The gdb people have always been extremely helpful to Pierre, Joost and
me whenever we had any questions whatsoever about how to add certain
Pascal-specific functionality to gdb. And the gcc people have added a
DWARF identifier for the i386 Borland calling convention in a header
file that's imported by gdb so that it would be possible to add
support for it to gdb (even though gcc does not support it in any way).
The only thing you can say is that it is not possible to order the GNU
people to implement and maintain all kinds of specific features
especially for us, even though their own interests or employers have
no use or interest in those features. That is however perfectly normal
for open source/free software projects, and that is no different in
the FPC community.
Jonas
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