[fpc-devel] bounty: FPC based debugger

[Martin Schreiber]

On Monday 12 September 2011 12:45:40 Nikolai Zhubr wrote:
> 12.09.2011 11:08, Graeme Geldenhuys:
> [...]
> 
> > If anybody with the know how is interested in implementing a Object
> > Pascal based debugger (or extending Duby specifically for use with FPC),
> > please let me know. I am more than willing to pay a few hundred US
> > dollars (or Euros) towards this bounty.
> 
> I'd also happily contribute $300 or so (in case there is a reasonable
> chance to actually get it working at least on windows/linux/bsd)
> 
> However, the effort needed is probably much much more expensive
> (Supposedly some pretty skilled developer(s) would have to work hard for
> several months, therefore it would then cost several thousands $ or
> more...)
> 
True. And maintaining all platforms is a fulltime job too.
And a FPC only debugger can not debug linked c libraries which we can do 
currently with gdb. And think of the remote debugging options gdb provides 
with many targets.

Martin