[fpc-devel] AnsiString in DWARF2 vs DWARF3

[Martin Schreiber]

On Tuesday, 26. October 2010 13.47:22 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Op 2010-10-26 13:22, Anton Kavalenka het geskryf:
> > Their last argument - we need assembly-line stepping debugger like in
> > Delphi.
>
> This is actually supported in MSEide, I did it the other day ("View >
> Assembler" and use 'Next instruction' in stead of 'Next' in the debugger
> toolbar). Even breakpoints can be set at assembly line level. From my
> experience MSEide's debugging is miles ahead of Lazarus IDE, but in the end
> there are still many problems (in both IDE's) due to missing DWARF
> information or usage of GDB not understanding Object Pascal language.
>
It is OK for 32 bit stabs but 64 bit FPC debugger support (dwarf AFAIK) is 
probably not finished. I do not recommend to use 64 bit for FPC development 
at the moment if 32 bit can be used instead.

Martin