[fpc-devel] How to search units reported by gdb? (fpc and mseide devels please participate)

[Jonas Maebe]

On 20 Mar 2009, at 17:52, Paul Ishenin wrote:

> Paul Ishenin wrote:
>> Thanks to Jonas. We don't need to write so big debug paths anymore.  
>> He successfully fixed an issue with path in the stabs in r12812.
> Jonas, can you look futher. I pasted one example here (executed - 
> file-list-exec-source-files) http://www.hu.freepascal.org/fpcircbot/cgipastebin?msgid=8928 
>  It shows that some include files still does not have full paths  
> while some have.
> As result executing of "-symbol-list-lines C:\programming\lazarus\lcl 
> \include\messagedialogs.inc" fails but "-symbol-list-lines  
> messagedialogs.inc" works. But for files with fullname it works ok  
> (for example for C:/programming/fpc/rtl/win/winres.inc).

In trunk/r12933 you can now force the compiler to always store  
absolute path for include files using -gostabsabsincludes. See the svn  
comment for why it's not the default (gcc also never does this, you  
can't even force it to do that). There is no way to specify a separate  
base directory for an include file in stabs, as opposed to for the  
main source file.

The reason that gdb previously already found an absolute path for some  
include files, was probably that they were located in the same  
directory as the main unit file.


Jonas