[fpc-devel] In FPC written FPC Debugger

[Michael Schnell]

>> This is a limitation of the user interface you are using on top of the  
>> gdb infrastructure, as e.g. Xcode (which uses the gdb mi) does display  
>> such types.
>>     
>
> Yea, I already thought that Eclipse, DDD, Anjuta, ... could also wrap
> that functionality. But with your statement nearly every missing feature
> in GDB can be dropped by referring to the UI.
>   
So it looks like at least pert of the missing stuff can be added by 
means of the Lazarus IDE.

Thus it looks more promising (and a lot less work to do) to go this way 
with the standard GDB as far as possible and introduce GDB extensions 
(as patches) if absolutely necessary.

>   
>>> - Set breakpoints within template functions. A template function might
>>>  be instantiated multiple times, i.e. for every type it is used for.
>>>  If you set a breakpoint at the source line within a template
>>>  function, only one instantiation is (randomly?) chosen.
>>>       
>> Use the rbreak command instead of break (and you may also have to use  
>> dwarf instead of stabs).

Am enhanced Lazarus IDE would be able to remote-control GDB in that way 
(managing multiple code breakpoints behind a single source code line), too.

-Michael

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