[fpc-devel] Re: 0020225: issue examining pointer/array/record elements with GDB

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 09:34 -0600, Seth Grover wrote:
> Jonas wrote:
> > The DWARF information is correct. Maybe Anton is using a GDB on a
> > Fedora-based distribution. Fedora's GDB is built from the Archer
> > branch. It's possible that this fixes another bug in GDB that is also
> > triggered by the DWARF2-encoding of dynamic arrays.
> 
> This morning I tried the vanilla GDB 7.2 release, the vanilla GDB
> 7.3.1 release, and various git branches from the archer branch
> (http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ProjectArcher), specifically the
> "archer-jankratochvil-vla" and "archer-tromey-python" branches. I was
> unable to get the correct behavior using any of those branches. Does
> anyone have any specific knowledge of where the bug is fixed?

That should work. Did you compile using -gw3? 

Joost
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