[fpc-devel] bounty: FPC based debugger

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Wed Sep 14 04:55:27 CEST 2011


Jeppe Græsdal Johansen schrieb:

>> Hardware support for writes to arbitrary memory addresses is 
>> restricted to very few addresses, not really useful.
> How many times do you think you need more than 1-2 watchpoints? Lots of 
> breakpoints I can understand, but I've never found many uses for 
> watchpoints.

Just when I was debugging FPC itself, which uses many global variables.
I ended up in turning the variables into properties, and set breakpoints 
in the setters. But this is not a solution, when the variables are also 
passed around as var parameters.

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