[Lazarus] Single-stepping assembler

Martin lazarus at mfriebe.de
Sat Sep 3 22:47:58 CEST 2011


On 03/09/2011 21:31, Martin wrote:
> On 03/09/2011 21:10, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Couple of questions if I may: what's the on/off button for and is it 
>> intentional that the order of the assembler buttons is reversed when 
>> compared with the main IDE?
>>
>
> 2) on/off
> A lot of debug windows have this. the button allows to disable the 
> window.  It allows faster debugging without the need to close the 
> windows.
> e.g. If you temporarilly do not need the asm, watches, or whatever, 
> then you do not want the debugger spend time to get the info for you. 
> You could close the window, or switch it off.

Btw, you can switch off the dis-ass window, and still use the single 
instruction steps. the current location will update, as long as you are 
in already disassembled lines.

This is much faster. If you reach the limits of the window, or step 
in/out to/of a function, then you need to power on




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