[Lazarus] GDB is not good, any tricks to improve it?

[Tony Whyman]

Are you using Windows or Linux (or OSX)?

In my experience, GDB runs better under Linux than Windows. Under 
Windows anti-virus software will often get in the way as well as it 
being generally slower.

I take Graeme's point about GDN not being that great for Pascal, but it 
does work most of the time and adding a few well placed "writeln" 
statements often makes up for any deficiencies (again much easier under 
Linux due to the difficulty of getting a working console under Windows). 
At least with Pascal you don't seem to get the regular C++ GDB problem 
of "variable optimised out" just when need to get its value.

Tony Whyman

On 26/05/16 06:31, Dennis wrote:
> I am using Lazarus 1.7 (2016-04-20) with FPC 3.1.1
>
> Great Work guys!
>
> However, the gdb that comes with it is not as good.  I know debugger 
> is hard to write so I am not blaming it.
> I just hope someone can share some tips or settings tricks that I can, 
> perhaps, make it work better?
>
> e.g. it is very slow and its speed is not stable.
> Sometimes, it is extremely slow or even stall the execution of the 
> main program.  But when I delete all breakpoints and restart it and 
> add back the breakpoints, it runs faster.
>
> I am hoping people can share this kind of tips.
>
> Anyone?
>
> Dennis
>
>
>
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