On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 12:59 +0200, 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 :-( .
An addition to Jonas answer: There was a time that the development of gdb stalled a bit. That can happen to any open source project. That had nothing to do with Object Pascal features. But now the gdb-development is on track again and those people working on it are really helpful. I think the problem lies more in the fact that a lot of Pascal developers do not know c very well. So they are not able to write patches for gdb to implement these features. That's why the idea of a debugger written in Pascal pop ups every year. But improving gdb to fix the last glitches seems to be a better approach to me. But 'we' are the ones who has to do the work. (As we should when we would build our own debugger) Joost. -- My Lazarus blog: http://www.lazarussupport.com/lazarus/weblog _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel