[fpc-devel] RECENT Commit breaking FpDebug - Dwarf / and not even fully fixing the original issue

[Pierre Muller]

Le 30/04/2026 à 00:21, Martin Frb via fpc-devel a écrit :
> On 29/04/2026 23:45, Pierre Muller via fpc-devel wrote:
>>
>> I am still the official Pascal maintainer of GDB, but I didn't do
>> anything
>> to improve GDB for a looonng time.
> 
>   From the point of FPC => is there an established way of testing the
> generated dwarf?
> I mean other than: its being used...
> 
> Is there an automated way?
> E.g. checking with selected versions of gdb/lldb that certain data can
> be processed?
> 
> Problem I see here is "selected version", as regressions in gdb don't
> mean that the fpc code is broken...

   I tried recently to use dwarfdump, a standard unix utility,
and this tool does indeed list a few issues with
the DWARF information generated by Free Pascal.

   I didn't have time to investigate these issues.

Pierre