[Lazarus] tooltip debugger shows incorrect data

[Martin]

  On 13/10/2010 18:08, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> I don't the problem is not the data type char, but that somewhere in
>> the debugger tool chain (from lazarus tool-tips front end to the gdb
>> backend using the fpc generated debug info) the assumption is used
>> that pascal strings are indexed starting from 0 instead of 1.
>>
>> Probably that is just how gdb works by default.
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> GDB being C-biased, that is quite likely the cause. Means that the 
> debugger interface must work around it.
actually, I think in dwarf 3 the lower bound can be defined (and from a 
search in fpc sources, it may even be done...); but I couldn't get dwarf 
3 results to work at all...

Martin