[Lazarus] Need feedback from Windows 64 users about GDB

[Martin Frb]

Since I only can test on a rather old w64 system, I would appreciate 
some feedback.

First of all, nothing of this affects the issues listed here 
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/GDB_Debugger_Tips#Inspecting_data_types_.28Watch.2FHint.29
On any issues listed on this page, or present in both GDB versions, do 
*NOT* reply to this mail, open a new mail thread if you want to mail 
about them.

Currently Lazarus w64 ships with GDB 7.3.50. This is rather old, and I 
do not know how it performs on newer versions of windows.

I did run some test with several newer versions and uploaded GDB 7.7
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Windows%2064%20bits/Alternative%20GDB/

The page (in the folder GDB7.7) describes some issues that I found.
If any one likes to test this, it would be good to hear, if you find any 
differences to 7.3.50. Anything that only works in 7.7? Or anything that 
no longer works in 7.7

Why 7.7? Its not very new either?
Well I also tested some other versions (7.8, 7.9 and 7.11)

7.11 (at least the build I obtained / on my test platform) kept 
crashing/hanging in my tests (i.e. gdb crashes, taking the entire debug 
session down), so it is not usable with fpc generated exe.

7.8 and 7.9 may work, but they failed more of my tests than 7.7.  I 
didnt spent the time to analyse in details what failed. (32 bit gdb have 
similar issues).