On Thursday 21 February 2008 22.22:27 Daniël Mantione wrote: > Op Thu, 21 Feb 2008, schreef Jonas Maebe: > > On 21 Feb 2008, at 21:37, Daniël Mantione wrote: > >> This discussion takes place in the fpc team from to time. It is clear we > >> will need our own debugger, even though not everyone likes to maintain a > >> debugger for its platform. > > > > I disagree it is even necessary for Mac OS X, as gdb works fine there > > (and both Apple and SourceWare have been fairly receptive to the -small- > > patches I have submitted). > > GDB works well on any Unix. It's the non-Unix platforms where gdb does not > work well. Lack of Pascal support like with, local procedures, > widestrings, dynamic arrays, properties is platform independend. Therefore > all platforms would benefit. > Displaying of ansistrings, widestrings and dynamic arrays is possible with current gdb. MSEide uses some tricks to achieve correct display in most of the cases.
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