From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eli Zaretskii To: Daniel Berlin Cc: Andrew Cagney , GDB Discussion Subject: Re: 5.1 NEWS Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 01:31:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <877kxir11l.fsf@cgsoftware.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00076.html On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Daniel Berlin wrote: > > Clear and concise bug reports might help solve whatever problems you > > see. > Thanks for the hint. Again. Sorry, given the lack of response to the previous hint, I thought my message got lost. > However, you speak of it as if these were a few isolated problems. > They weren't. > You get hit with them attempting to debug any pascal program, right > from the get go (this is a pascal program i had compiled last time i > tried this): I don't even know what Pascal compiler did Pierre use for testing the current support (was it really gpc?), so I cannot judge the problems you present. > (from p-exp.y, at the top) > - pascal string operations are not supported at all. > - there are some problems with boolean types. > - Pascal type hexadecimal constants are not supported > because they conflict with the internal variables format. > Probably also lots of other problems, less well defined PM */ > These are *serious* limitations. Not unlike many others in GDB. Problems with shared libraries, multi-threading, and C++ come to mind. > I'm also curious as to why I have to go to great lengths to prove > this. Because you know something others don't. For example, I never use Pascal, so I don't have time to read Pascal-related files in GDB. For the same reason, you probably don't know much about limitations of GDB in the DJGPP port, so it's up to me to ``go to great lengths'' in order to explain them, should that become an issue (as it happened a few times).