Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 05 Oct 2009, at 15:27, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
The fp IDE can drive libgdb to do straightforward debugging on x86 and
ARM, there might be failures with complex stuff that I've not been
able to test. Those two platforms are no problem, the problems are on
PowerPC and SPARC.
You're really picking your fights, aren't you? :) The textmode IDE is
probably the least maintained part of FPC currently, and Linux/SPARC is
not exactly the most used release either :)
[GRIN] Yes, and I'm the one trying to get to grips with the IDE "for the
common good" starting with finding out exactly what files are being
built into it on the different platforms- hence the Perl filter.
If SPARC is of any continuing relevance it's because it's possible to
get fairly large systems dirt-cheap right now, I've been very quiet on
this over the last few months specifically because I was trying to get
to grips with the IDE issue... I didn't want to say anything until I was
confident of my facts.
Note that the code is correct: it's output the Hello World message
even though subsequently the debugger is confused.
d48656c = #13'Hel'. gdb on SPARC is trying to dereference the string
itself. I've fixed this in r13813 in trunk.
0d48. Well spotted :-) OK, I'll get back onto that as soon as I've got a
couple more live jobs off my desk.
Do you agree that the PowerPC problem is probably a broken Debian
library somewhere? It's not as though we actually need XML for anything...
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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