[lazarus] DDD Graphical Debugger

[Baeseman, Cliff]

This would make life very nice...

I was actually able to step thru code last night using DDD, now that may
seem like a small thing but I can at least see where the liib code is
jumping to. I would imagine it would also help other people trying to code
in our libs to understand what is going on in there. Most of us have a
pretty good idea but it was a great blessing just to be able to set a
breakpoint and step code...

DDD is pretty good with Free Pascal from what I saw last night. Of course it
is using gdb on the back end which could not resolve a variable I was trying
to place a watch on. If I could just place a watch on something I would be
off and running.

A: string

A := 'hello';


I was trying to use DDD to watch A and it said a was not in this context.

Cliff

Cliff

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Vreman [mailto:pfv at cooldown.demon.nl]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 9:49 AM
To: lazarus at miraclec.com
Subject: Re: [lazarus] DDD Graphical Debugger


>   Has anyone tried this thing yet.?  I have managed to compile a small
> program for testing with debug turned on and can set code break points
based
> on line numbers. This works ok but I cannot get it to load a pp source
file
> or the ability to put a watch on something.  Man I could really get
serious
> with some code if I had a tool like it to debug the lazarus libs. They do
> mention something on the DDD site about setting up something in GDB to
make
> the source show something like a search path.
> 
> Just getting back in the groove.
GDB commandos:

Watch: print (only once) / display
Searchdirs: dir
Showfiles: list


But i like rhgdb more to debug on a normal console after seting the
DISPLAY string to the correct X server

It should get time that we get our own gui debugger working with pascal
support (there are already working patches for gdb 4.18)

Peter






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