[fpc-devel] Dwarf-3

[Martin Schreiber]

On Sunday 24 January 2016 17:17:57 Martin wrote:
> On 24/01/2016 16:03, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> > Dwarf-3 can handle dyn. arrays much better. What do you think about
> > switching the default dwarf level from 2 to 3?
>
> The last gdb I tested on win (32bit vista) was gdb 10.0  (current is 10.1)
>
> And (IIRC) it still crashes (gdb exe has stopped working) with dwarf3.
>
Confirmed with Linux x64 gdb 7.9.1. gdb with  FPC -gw3 crashes by many watches 
("self",arrays,pointers...) and does not find uppercase queries for lowercase 
variables so the workaround for class variables can not be used. It is 
completely unusable for IDE purpose.

Martin