[Lazarus] lazarus debug with gdb [Re: [fpc-devel] bounty: FPC based debugger]

[Martin]

On 15/09/2011 11:00, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 15/09/2011 11:50, Martin wrote:
>> By now, you should know the can-do and con-not-do, and you should be
>> able to use accordingly. (e.g. watch the entire string, instead of an
>> index / or add  1 to the index yourself)
> At the time I reported the inconsistency problem, I used Lazarus IDE for
> debugging. Tooltip debugging, watches etc. It displayed the wrong
> character. So from a developers point of view, they believe what the IDE
> shows them as correct and true. This was not the case (back then).
>
> I believe Lazarus IDE has been improved to "interpret" what the
> developer meant, and based on the string type, convince GDB to return
> the correct data via some work-arounds. But from a "normal FPC
> developers" point of view - they want to use Pascal syntax in a watch
> window, and expect correct results. At the time, this was not the case.
Unfortunately not...

The problem is to distinguish between string and pchar. As pchar must 
not be "fixed"