[Lazarus] Single-stepping assembler

[Martin]

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?
>

1) you may :)

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.

It also allows you to freeze the current content, even if you stop 
debugging. So you still have the content for reference.

Since it was added, some of the benefits are no longer relevant, due to 
other changes. For example, the debugger now stops fetching if, if you 
press F8 (or otherwhise run/step the app). So the speed gain is rather 
minimal. (you only have to wait for one gdb command to be finished (for 
asm that still can take a bit); before this you had to wait for all open 
windows to finish)

For preserving data (not asm though), there is a history window now, 
that allows to view the watches, locals, stack, threads, of previous breaks.

3) There is no intention about the order.  I never used  the buttons in 
the IDE, so I never realized