[fpc-devel] In FPC written FPC Debugger

[Martin Schreiber]

On Friday 22 February 2008 08.19:27 Daniël Mantione wrote:

> > Displaying of ansistrings, widestrings and dynamic arrays is possible
> > with current gdb. MSEide uses some tricks to achieve correct display in
> > most of the cases.
>
> How? I have been playing with the idea of doing memory dumps with the x
> command and process the data yourself, but to do so, you need to have info
> about the symbols. A possibility for the textmode IDE, because ithas an
> integrated compiler, but a problem for an IDE that does not include the
> compiler. You are parsing ppu files or so?
>
No, I use the typeinfo that gdb returns.

Martin