Re: errors in GDB reading symbols

[Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe@elis.ugent.be>]

On 04 Aug 2009, at 16:33, Tom Tromey wrote:

> I think the Free Pascal folks already know about this problem:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org/msg13661.html

Yes, I also forwarded Daniel's original message to the Free Pascal  
core list. I'm a member of the Free Pascal core development team, but  
not in the camp that favours writing a complete alternative debugger  
(although I really would appreciate it if someone could integrate the  
GDB patches I submit, because even after pinging twice http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-06/msg00273.html 
  still appears to be in limbo).

I'm quite sure that in the end some people will write a new Object  
Pascal debugger from scratch anyway, at least for Windows (where GDB  
reportedly doesn't always work that well), but I'm not interested in  
maintaining a Mac OS X port of that and I will continue working on/ 
with GDB (if only because Apple changes internal low level details way  
too often for me to play catch up all the time, and because projects  
regularly mix different languages on that platform). The libgdb.a  
problem is also irrelevant to FPC's Mac OS X port, because the text  
mode IDE that uses it is not supported on that platform.


Jonas