[fpc-devel] bounty: FPC based debugger

[Jonas Maebe]

On 12 Sep 2011, at 15:23, rdos at rdos.net wrote:

> Why would anybody want to concentrate on gdb, which is an ancient
> debugger,

It's only 7 years older than FPC (GDB: 1986; FPC: 1993).

> that does not have a modern GUI integrated into it,

A GUI should not be integrated in a debugger. You don't want to  
recompile a debugger depending on whether you use KDE or GNOME.  
However, what is useful and what GDB does lack, is the ability to use  
the debugger in library form.

> and that was
> not built to handle Pascal in the first place?

GDB is built for supporting multiple languages. E.g., its ADA support  
has been much better than its C++ support for a long time (although C+ 
+ support is getting fairly good nowadays too).


Jonas