Adding properties into existing stabs/dwarf; gdb readable workaround ? [[Re: [fpc-devel] Status and ideas about debug info (stabs, dwarf / dwar3)]]

[Jonas Maebe]

On 13 Sep 2011, at 12:22, Martin wrote:

> On 13/09/2011 10:31, Flávio Etrusco wrote:
>> GDB supposedly has support for reverse execution/walking back; I  
>> don't
>> even know whether it really works for C, not to mention FPC calling
>> conventions, but if it does it would be a killer ;-)

It's unrelated to the programming language.

> afaik, requires hardware support.

Support has to be implemented in GDB for each architecture before it  
will work (currently it's implemented for x86 and ARM, afaik), but it  
does not rely on special hardware support.


Jonas