[Lazarus] debug hints in lazarus [Re: [fpc-devel] Status and ideas about debug info (stabs, dwarf / dwar3)]

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 15:41 +0100, Martin wrote:
> On 13/09/2011 14:01, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 14:07 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> BTW: is it correct that some info about classes from units without debug 
> info, does get into the app?
> At least if you have an inherited class,  in a unit with debug info.
> 
> e.g If TForm1 in unit1 has debug info, then TComponent (which is a base 
> class) appears to be included too?

I think so. If you want to know this, do a 'objdump -W
programexecutable'. I don't remember it's Windows counterpart, but you
could ask google. It will show you the Dwarf-data. This is imho also the
first step if you want to learn more about the Dwarf-debug information
format.

Joost

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