[Lazarus] Command line number would be more useful

[Alexander Klenin]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 09:15, Andrew Haines <AndrewD207 at aol.com> wrote:
> Arí Ricardo Ody wrote:
>> I'm running a custom program under Lazarus control. When occurs an
>> exception that I didn't intercept I receive a assembly screen.
>>
>> For me, it's totally useless. I don't program in assembly.  I know lots
>> of programmers that program in  high level languages(as pascal) and
>> don't know assembly.
>>
>> I would like to suggest that Lazarus Team and FPC Team spend efforts in
>> develop ways to inform the command line number of the exception. Even
>> when I compile in Free Pascal using "-CX -XX -gl" I don't receive the
>> line number of the exception.
>>
>> IMHO, I have no doubts that the command line number information would be
>> more useful that the assembly code.
>
> I always use View -> Debug windows -> Call stack since it has the line
> numbers.

I argee here -- although I do know assembler, it is still useless to me in 99%
of cases. So I suggest to display the call stack by default,
and only display assembler window if the call stack is corrupted/unavailable.

-- 
Alexander S. Klenin