[fpc-devel] bounty: FPC based debugger

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Michael Schnell schrieb:

>> 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).
> Unfortunately it seems to be hard (or close to impossible) to work with 
> the g* team(s) to have gdb (or gcc) provide Object Pascal specific 
> features :-(

IMO you're addressing the wrong audience. Most things, beyond breakpoint 
handling, stepping and memory read/writes, can be done outside the 
debugger. Such external code is not bound to debugger support, and can 
use language specific information (RTTI...).

DoDi