[fpc-devel] bounty: FPC based debugger

[Jeff Duntemann]

I agree with Joost. I've always liked the Insight GUI for gdb, and as 
best I know that's written in Tcl/Tk, of all things. So a FreePascal 
front end for gdb isn't a bad idea, and would be a great deal easier 
than writing a complete low-level debugger from scratch.

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--Jeff Duntemann
   Colorado Springs, Colorado


On 9/13/2011 6:09 AM, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 12:59 +0200, Michael Schnell wrote:
>> On 09/13/2011 11:06 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>> 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 :-( .
> An addition to Jonas answer:
>
> There was a time that the development of gdb stalled a bit. That can
> happen to any open source project. That had nothing to do with Object
> Pascal features. But now the gdb-development is on track again and those
> people working on it are really helpful.
>
> I think the problem lies more in the fact that a lot of Pascal
> developers do not know c very well. So they are not able to write
> patches for gdb to implement these features.
>
> That's why the idea of a debugger written in Pascal pop ups every year.
> But improving gdb to fix the last glitches seems to be a better approach
> to me. But 'we' are the ones who has to do the work. (As we should when
> we would build our own debugger)
>
> Joost.