[fpc-devel] debug information for Variant type

[Marc Weustink]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> 
> On 01 Dec 2009, at 13:42, Paul Ishenin wrote:
> 
>> Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>> Would it be enough if the type name were changed to "variant"? It 
>>> would not be 100% safe (since "variant" is not a reserved word, 
>>> anyone can declare a variable/type/... with the name "variant"), but 
>>> I don't immediately see another solution.
>> I think yes.
> 
> Does the attached patch work for DWARF with Lazarus? "ptype variantvar" 
> still shows tvardata, but "info variantvar" shows "static VARIANT V;", 
> and I don't know what the GDB MI will return for the query that Lazarus 
> uses.

the mi version of info var.. is not implemented in gdb, so lazarus uses 
ptype var

So I guess for this case, when a TVarrec is returned we'll inspect 
further using info.

Thanks Marc