[fpc-pascal] Debugging Win32

[Martin]

On 12/05/2011 23:49, Justin Smyth wrote:
> Since upgrading to the lazarus 0.9.31 v30288 x64 ( and win32) i've 
> noticed the debugging is painfully slow , what use to take only a few 
> seconds under 0.9.28 now seems to take 20 to 30 seconds
> I've noticed this in both projects using win32 ( at work ) and my home 
> projects on x64 platform for windows.
> Any clues would be welcome on how to solve this .

There are indeed changes, that make some scenarios slower.

Before I go into details, the problems is that some expressions are not 
correctly interpreted by gdb => so the IDE has to translate first. To do 
this the IDE needs additional information, and to get that from gdb 
takes additional time.

This does mostly affect the watches window (and hint evaluation).
In the past the IDE would simple send the expression (the watch) to gdb 
as it was. And sometimes return an error, for a correct expression. Now 
it does attempt to fixup some of them (not all, there are too many 
different ones)

You will experience this slowness if, and only if the watches window is 
open. It may also happen with the disassembler view (though that was 
never too fast...)

The watches window has a power button now. So if you want to do a couple 
of steps without it, you can just power it off => and get speed.
You can also disable individual watches that you do not need at current.

Another way is, if you need to step 2 or 3 instructions, just keep 
pressing F8 2 or 3 times, and it should quickly step.  Because as soon 
as you press F8 again, the watch evaluation will be stopped.


hope this helps.

Martin



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