[fpc-devel] New Windows gdb-binary

[Leonardo M. Ramé]

>________________________________
>From: Joost van der Sluis <joost at cnoc.nl>
>To: fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org
>Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 10:02 AM
>Subject: [fpc-devel] New Windows gdb-binary
>
>Hi all,
>
>For all those who are interested in new debug-features of fpc and gdb, I
>have cross-compiled a gdb-executable for Windows.
>
>It's based on the Fedora-16 branch from the Archer project. But I added
>a few patches of my own, namely the patch to recognize methods, setting
>case-sensitivity off by default and a patch to allow evaluating
>method-values (without actually calling them.)
>
>With this gdb-version you can:
>- Print strings properly, this means that indexes are evaluated properly
>and strings can contain #0 characters (when compiled with -gw3)
>- Dynamic array are evaluated properly (when compiled with -gw3)
>- Case of identifiers are preserved (when compiled with -gw3)
>- It is possible to identify class-methods (fpc 2.7.1 only)
>- It is possible to call simple class-methods (fpc 2.7.1 only. Some
>problems on i386 regarding the calling conventions remain, and there
>seems to be some problems still with overridden functions)
>
>Please test this gdb-version, and tell me about your experiences.
>Especially Martin. ;)
>
>Oh, you can download it here:
>http://www.lazarussupport.com/gdb_lazarssupport_20110930.zip
>
>Joost
>-- 
>My Lazarus blog: http://www.lazarussupport.com/lazarus/weblog
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Looks impressive. I'll start testing right now.


Leonardo M. Ramé
http://leonardorame.blogspot.com