On 10 Feb 2013, at 20:12, Vittorio Giovara wrote:
> The iOS experience could be improved in many ways, for example in
> Xcode you cannot set a breakpoint and when you do so with gdb all you
> get is an assembly viewer
I don't remember ever hearing about this or seeing a bug report about this.
It's unlikely that this is related to FPC vs LLVM code or debug info generation
though. And adding support for LLVM is something different than adding support
for LLVM + LLVM debug information. The two are completely decoupled, and one
will not automatically get you the other.
That said, regarding some other things that have been mentioned in this thread:
a) the fpc llvm branch is completely out of date, predates the high level code
generator that now should be used to add LLVM support, and at best can be used
to get some ideas or code snippets from. I'm not sure how much is really usable
though.
b) I do think that adding an LLVM backend to FPC is useful. As I've mentioned
before, it's however extremely unlikely that it will ever replace existing code
generators (for any platform), it would simply become an additional option
c) from the GSoC mentors list, I've understood that the best students are
generally people who were already involved with the project (on the mailing
lists, by submitting patches, ...). They are familiar with the project, the way
contributions are handled, expectations of the existing developers regarding
new code, and there is more chance that they are interested in working on the
project in the long term (contributed code that is not maintained afterwards is
much less valuable, because we already have a lot of code to maintain; if you
have to maintain code, it's generally easier to do so if you wrote it yourself)
Jonas
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