On 08/09/2011 09:10, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 08/09/2011, Martin wrote:
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(^^PChar(Sender)^+3)^+1

It should give you the real classname
Can this be used in the debugger hint, when moving the mouse over
'Sender'?
Done
Please see the following bug report:

    http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20190


Too much of a good thing can also be a bad thing. ;-)

How long did it take before? Can you get me the "Debug output" from your system, please [1]?

I have a 2.4GHZ "Intel Core 2 CPU 6600" (4 years old). On Windows (and I found that using gdb on Win is often slower than on for example Linux). Yet it takes between 1 and 2 secs, but true it took half a sec before..

Stabs or Dwarf? gdb 7.0 and up, has a bug in relations to stabs. which may add a tiny fraction of time (but really tiny only); as it has to resend ONE dgb-command, which returns the bug-triggered error

Only, usually TSender is declared as TObject (well in LCL code, that may not be true for your code). Displaying a TObject is showing you the vptr only => or in other words, it's telling you if the variable is nil or none-nil. That's not too useful.

How fast (or slow) fills the watch window on you pc? (if you have several watches)?


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About the size of the hint => that problem existed before (only not for this use case). You could already get hints for variables that were declared as TForm or similar.

and yes, obviously a more structured output would be better than the current "continues text" mess. But again that is an old problem. And the unstructured output; imho is still better than the VPTR info of TObject


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[1]
debug output:
It will look like "TObject" Or whatever Sender is DECLARED in your case) is ask twice from gdb. It is not, the 2 ptype are different (and were both present before). They are needed because gdb make sno difference between PObject and TObject. In case of the hint that is minor, as the hint dereferences anyway (and did so before the latest change), but that code is used for other calls too.


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