[Lazarus] what can we do to get a better debugger

Martok listbox at martoks-place.de
Tue Nov 20 17:19:29 CET 2018


Am 20.11.2018 um 11:37 schrieb Dennis via lazarus:
> FPC and Lazarus are great but the GDB is inadequate.
> Many times in my development, GDB failed or crashed, especially when I am
> debugging multi thread programs.
> 
> Shall we start a fund raising event to raise fund for a new and better debugger
> for FPC + Lazarus? (provided there are talents out there who would do implement it).

So much this. GDB needs to die in a fire.

(nb: make sure to enable "Reset debugger after every run". That at least works
around the absurd amount of memory leaks, and helps with lost breakpoints.)

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Regards,
Martok

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