[fpc-devel] Status and ideas about debug info (stabs, dwarf / dwar3)

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:

> Just the other day I had to use Delphi 7 again to do some maintenance on
> one of our older products. That's when I again came to the realization
> what dismal state FPC's debugging support is at - it's like travelling
> back in time to the early 80's where using writeln() was the normal
> debugging process. I'll happily pay the $800 licensing fee to
> Embarcadero if I could get at the same time much better debugging
> support under Linux.

IMO debugging support was one of the reasons, why Kylix was based on 
Wine, and the cross-platform versions of Delphi use remote debugging 
only. For that implementation a tiny (remote) debugger interface is 
sufficient, and the IDE can implement all the language specific debug 
support.

I'd be happy if somebody could tell me how to make all those "no such 
identifier in scope" messages disappear, that currently reduce debugging 
"support" to breakpoints, call stack and local variables.

DoDi