[fpc-devel] bounty: FPC based debugger

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 12/09/2011 13:00, Martin Schreiber wrote:
>
> True. And maintaining all platforms is a fulltime job too.

Maintenance should be MUCH less work than the initial implementation. So
I don't consider this too a big problem. FPC doesn't change that
radically that often.


> And a FPC only debugger can not debug linked c libraries which we can do

Then use GDB for such cases.


> currently with gdb. And think of the remote debugging options gdb provides 
> with many targets.

As I mentioned, there are many additional features that could be added
to a "debugger". But for an initial implementation, I think what I
listed should suffice to most often used cases.

GDB wasn't developer overnight, neither would a FPC debugger. But that
is no reason, not to implement one.

Regards,
  - Graeme -

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