[Lazarus] Debugger constantly crashing.

[Donald Ziesig]

On 08/27/2017 04:43 PM, Martin Frb via Lazarus wrote:
> On 27/08/2017 20:51, Donald Ziesig via Lazarus wrote:
>>
>> The GDB command:
>> "-data-evaluate-expression CQ2WORLDDM.CQWORLDDATA^"
>> did not return any result.
>>
>> The only thing that seems to be consistent with all of the crashes is 
>> that the expression being evaluated is dereferencing a pointer.  (I 
>> might be wrong about this; I just don't recall any other cases).
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this and come up with a solution, or should I 
>> create a bug report?
>
> This is a bug in gdb, so we can not fix it on our end.
>
> But a couple of notes that may help.
>
> 1) You can turn of the debug hint somewhere in the options (codetools) 
> IIRC
>
> 2) Try compiling with dwarf or stabs (project options / debugging). I 
> think the default is stabs, so you should try dwarf.
>
> BUT: You need to apply that to all packages too (each package has an 
> option). Easiest way to do this is "Additions and Overrides"
>
> 3) Try a different version of GDB.
> I have not tested this on Linux, but on win only. But it may be 
> similar on Linux.
> My observation is that gdb at version 7.7 and above crashes more often 
> (and especially with stabs).
>
>
Thanks Martin.  I'll try these suggestions and let you (and the list) 
know how they work.

Don