[fpc-devel] Re: Debugger for FPC

[Vincent Snijders]

Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Martin Schreiber <fpmse at bluewin.ch> wrote:
>> Delphi/Kylix probably can't map a variable to the address of another variable,
>> because of that Delphi needs separate implementations of format functions
>> with and without FormatSettings parameter.
> 
> To be honest that is not my concern... As a developer I simply use
> ShortDateFormat and that's it.
> 

I guess the fpc developers traded debuggability for maintainability, so 
you could have a better fpc (more features or less bugs). That is what 
it concerns to you as developer. Maybe you disagree with that trade off.

Vincent