[fpc-devel] win32 debugging broken in fixes_2_2?

[Martin Schreiber]

On Tuesday 10 July 2007 14.53, vsnijders at quicknet.nl wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Martin Schreiber <fpmse at bluewin.ch>
> Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 2:44 pm
> Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] win32 debugging broken in fixes_2_2?
>
> > On Tuesday 10 July 2007 14.34, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> > > The rtl checks on startup whether or not your cpu supports SSE. It
> > > does so by executing an SSE instruction, catching the "illegal
> > > instruction" exception if it occurs and if so, setting a boolean to
> > > false.
> > >
> > > So just type "continue" in gdb to continue the program.
> >
> > And what should I do in MSEide? Disable SIGILL reporting by gdb?
> > How does Lazarus handle the problem?
>
> It does not handle it. If you handle it in MSEIDE, please let us know how
> you did it.
>
I uploaded a patch to Mantis which prevents for thowing an exception with an 
PII on Linux and win32.

http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=9242

The exception address evaluating by the IDE method does not work on win32 
because of gdb problems. It would be a nightmare to implement anyway.

Martin