[fpc-devel] properties with getter evaluation in gdb

[Jonas Maebe]

On 15 Mar 2010, at 04:01, Paul Ishenin wrote:

> 12.03.2010 21:49, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
>> The default calling convention could be used. This would only work  
>> for
>> routines with "simple" return types though (types that are not  
>> returned
>> via a hidden first parameter).
>
> I don't think any/default calling convention have result return in  
> EAX as fpc do.

All calling conventions on i386 (except for safecall) return "simple"  
results in eax.

> Also for methods self needs to be passed.

That's true, but GDB already does that when calling a method,  
including for Pascal (the only problem in that respect is that without  
the hacky patch mentioned earlier, GDB's Pascal parser does not  
support expressing method calls).


Jonas