I agree with Joost. I've always liked the Insight GUI for gdb, and as
best I know that's written in Tcl/Tk, of all things. So a FreePascal
front end for gdb isn't a bad idea, and would be a great deal easier
than writing a complete low-level debugger from scratch.
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--Jeff Duntemann
Colorado Springs, Colorado
On 9/13/2011 6:09 AM, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 12:59 +0200, Michael Schnell wrote:
On 09/13/2011 11:06 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
GDB is built for supporting multiple languages. E.g., its ADA support
has been much better than its C++ support for a long time (although
C++ support is getting fairly good nowadays too).
Unfortunately it seems to be hard (or close to impossible) to work with
the g* team(s) to have gdb (or gcc) provide Object Pascal specific
features :-( .
An addition to Jonas answer:
There was a time that the development of gdb stalled a bit. That can
happen to any open source project. That had nothing to do with Object
Pascal features. But now the gdb-development is on track again and those
people working on it are really helpful.
I think the problem lies more in the fact that a lot of Pascal
developers do not know c very well. So they are not able to write
patches for gdb to implement these features.
That's why the idea of a debugger written in Pascal pop ups every year.
But improving gdb to fix the last glitches seems to be a better approach
to me. But 'we' are the ones who has to do the work. (As we should when
we would build our own debugger)
Joost.
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