[fpc-devel] bounty: FPC based debugger

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 14:48 +0200, Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 09/13/2011 01:22 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> >
> > Don't insult people when you clearly don't have any experience 
> > whatsoever in working with them.
> Sorry if I sounded impolite. I did not at all mean to insult them. On 
> the contrary I praise them for their exceptional work !
> 
> I only wanted to state that it does not make much sense to try to have 
> specific additional features included in gdb to improve it's usability 
> with FPC.

Why not? There are many already. If you want to do a full gdb-build, fpc
is even a buildrequirement. ;) (This is for the gdb-testsuitem which has
some fpc-tests)

> > The gdb people have always been extremely helpful to Pierre, Joost and 
> > me whenever we had any questions whatsoever about how to add certain 
> > Pascal-specific functionality to gdb. And the gcc people have added a 
> > DWARF identifier for the i386 Borland calling convention in a header 
> > file that's imported by gdb so that it would be possible to add 
> > support for it to gdb (even though gcc does not support it in any way).
> If we could really hope for this, I would vote for a gdb extension 
> instead of creating a completely new debugger from scratch .

You do know that GDB does have a Pascal extension, right?

Joost
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