[fpc-devel] New Windows gdb-binary

[Martin]

On 30/09/2011 16:22, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 15:54 +0100, Martin wrote:
>> Now reading it again, does it mean:
>> 1) gdb can (magically?) get the return value of a function/method, but
>> WITHOUT calling/invoking the function (e.g. for properties)
>> 2) gdb can "evaluate" the type of a method. e.g return "ptype
>> Tfoo.Method" = "function(a:int): boolean"
> The second. When you do 'p functionname' you get some background
> information about the function. When you do 'p functionname()' it will
> call the function.

Yep, that's what I figured. Initially I though 1 (and I thought, how?)

> This didn't work for methods, so 'p class.methodname()' did work while
> 'p class.methodname' didn't. That's what's fixed.
>
> The (simple) patch is attached.
>
> But what we could do now is write debuginfo for properties with getters
> as if it is a function. The answer of 'p class.propertyname' will tell
> you it's a function, which yould be called if you want to.
>
>

Yep, I need to improve the IDE to detect functions in expressions, and 
enable/disable execution, depend on user settings (rather than letting 
the user type the ()