[fpc-devel] debug information for Variant type

[Jonas Maebe]

On 01 Dec 2009, at 11:53, Paul Ishenin wrote:

> Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
>> DWARF does, but GDB doesn't support it yet.
>
> We only need to disctinct Variant and TVarData. So when user want to  
> watch Variable variable we will perform TVarData() cast and show the  
> value ourself. When TVarData is used we will show as TVarData (iow,  
> as record).

Would it be enough if the type name were changed to "variant"? It  
would not be 100% safe (since "variant" is not a reserved word, anyone  
can declare a variable/type/... with the name "variant"), but I don't  
immediately see another solution.


Jonas