[fpc-pascal] Range Check runtime errors

[James Richters]

I was recently troubleshooting a program that got a range check error and had quite a time figuring it out... it gave me the line number that generated the error...  but unfortunately that line had a whole pile variables in it... it was trying to access an element of an array, with formulas to specify the elements, so I didn't know which part of this was generating the range check error.   Two things could have helped me here,  one would be to know which variable went out of range, and the other thing would be to know what the range was, and for that matter what value was trying to be assigned... it seems to me that the range checking routine must know the range it's checking for and it should also know what contents of the variable that triggered the error.. so why not output the value detected, the allowable range, and the variable name along with the error?  It would greatly simplify tracking down bugs.   Anyone have any comment of if there is a possibility of adding this information to range check errors?

James