[fpc-devel] Dwar2 changed?

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 11:00 +0000, Martin wrote:
> On 13/01/2011 07:45, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> >
> >>   >>  TCmdLineDebugger.SendCmdLn "-data-evaluate-expression
> >> ^^shortstring(^POINTER($eax)^+12)^^"
> >> <<  TCmdLineDebugger.ReadLn "^done,value="#0<repeats 20 times>""
> >> <<  TCmdLineDebugger.ReadLn "(gdb) "
> > You do realize that this is an hack? (I partly wrote it)
> > It could also be that the location of the exception-name has been
> > changed by something. This hack doesn't use any debug-information. Only
> > the definitions of a shortstring  and pointer.
> >
> I do, yes...
> 
> But:
> - I know eax is correct, because the fall-back (using ^char instead of 
> shortstring works:
>    -data-evaluate-expression ^char(^pointer(^POINTER($eax)^+12)^+1)
> - The fallback is usually needed, if shortstring is not in the 
> symboltable at all, but then the expression gives an error. Now the 
> expression returns data, but the wrong data...

Ehh? Does the fallback work or not?

> Strange, the same fpc on windows still works perfect with half a dozen 
> different fpc versions (6.3 to 7.2)

So it could be a gdb-problem?

> It is also possible that my previous fpc trunk on my fedora box was 
> build with some debug ino, and now I forgot, and just build it... but 
> again on windows I tested with fpc 2.4.2 and trunc, both build with 
> several different configs...

You lost me. Do I still have to do something?

Joost.