[fpc-pascal]debugging

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> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Am Mi, den 05.05.2004 schrieb Marc Santhoff um 23:20:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I need to hunt a bug that is very hard to catch, because it occurs
> > somewhere in event handling proc and funcs of gtk1.2.
> >
> > Can someone please point me to FAQs and how-to's on the debugging
topic?
> > Or tell me some tricks?
> >
> > Until now I'm not very familiar with gsb, especially in combination
with
> > pascel...
> 
> (should be: gdb and pascal ... ;)
> 
> Okay, I've found something:
> 
> 'ddd' is what I need (somewhat like the debugger from Delphi)
> 
> Look at http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
> 
> Thank for attention,
> Marc

There is also a graphical wrapper around gdb called insight. I am using
that most of the time.

I had no trouble compiling it from source on linux. You might find some
older rpm's on the net. For windows you can install the cygwin version,
you get it when you install gdb.

HTH,
Vincent.