Line Numbers, own System Module and DWARF

[paule32]

Hello,
I was faced with a little Problem:
- when I don't use the Compand Line Option -gl in combination with -n I get the Error, that dwarf Module can not be found.

I was thinking that FPC produce all these Debug and Meta Information's itself ...

[PascalDragon]

- when I don't use the Compand Line Option -gl in combination with -n I get the Error, that dwarf Module can not be found.

If you don't use the -gl option then the compiler won't generate debug information.

[paule32]

that is right.

But FPC tries to make Things alone - in a fast way ...
So, I wonder why I need a Module for Bootstrap compiling my own System.pas

[PascalDragon]

The compiler does not load the lnfodwrf unit for units, only for programs and libraries, so you're simply not compiling correctly.

[Martin_fr]

Hello,
I was faced with a little Problem:
- when I don't use the Compand Line Option -gl in combination with -n I get the Error, that dwarf Module can not be found.

-gl does 2 things

1) adds debug info (in most case dwarf / older compiler versions may do stabs)

2) include the unit infodwarf or lineinfo (the latter if stabs were generated) // name may be slightly different.

So maybe the error is, that it can't find that unit?

E.g. IIRC you get that error if you compile for WinCE/arm => because no such unit exists for that target.

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That unit installs a handler, so traces are printed with info from the debug info.