[fpc-devel] Calling methods from within gdb

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 23:07 +0200, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 12 Sep 2011, at 22:05, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> 
> > Does someone knows a trick how to make gdb call a method (function) from
> > a class?
> 
> It requires a patch to gdb. I'm fairly sure I already sent it to you in the past. It was part of an, incomplete, patch set to also add support for the Borland fastcall calling convention. The patch to add the method calling support was a hack though.

I think I have that patch applied. Calling functions in itself does
work, even when they use Borland fastcall. The problem is that it does
not work for a method, this inside a class. 

I'll have a look at those patches again. (I still have them)

Joost
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