[fpc-devel] Debugger for FPC

Adriaan van Os fpc at microbizz.nl
Wed Mar 11 11:14:53 CET 2009


dmitry boyarintsev wrote:
>> Finally getting rid of GDB: This is VERY good news indeed :-)

I quite agree !

> it's been getting rid of GDB for some time already... but, imho it
> should not be removed!
> 
> 1) because GDB supports a lot of platforms, already. So porting a fpc
> program to a new platform, will require a debugger. And the only
> debugger available will probably be gdb.

Not really, there is low-level debugging support inside the OS. This is true for Windows as well as 
for UNIX-like operating systems.

Regards,

Adriaan van Os



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