[fpc-devel] "embedded" again

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 01/21/2013 04:18 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
>> Having a working GDB and a working debugger in the fp IDE are two 
>> different things, because unlike Lazarus the fp IDE does not use the 
>> command line based interface, but uses a library version of GDB which 
>> is AFAIK since some versions no longer compiled by default... (and 
>> might not be compiled for ARM at all...)
>>
> I see.
> 
> I'll ask my colleague who said that Lazarus would "run" on his RPi if he 
> in fact used the debugger.

Sven is trying to make the point that the fp IDE and Lazarus use the 
debugger completely differently: fp (as I've said at least twice) uses 
libgdb which doesn't (to the best of my knowledge) run on ARM, Lazarus 
talks to standard gdb.

>  From your mail it seems less  likely that the fp can use the debugger 
> that that Lazarus can :-( , as a working command line gdb comes with gcc 
> and its availability should be rather "standard".

Lazarus is OK with the GDB on all platforms I've tested including ARM, 
except that getting down to the register level can be a bit problematic 
on some systems: Martin's rather chasing a moving target.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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