Native Pascal Debugger?

[Marc]

I was a bit to pessimistic, the dwarf format has way to extend it, so properties can be described.

[Graeme]

A native debugger won't have full property support either. The dwarf debugger format has no way to describe them.

I thought DWARF 3 could be extended to support near anything, without having to have those extensions explicitly contributed to the DWARF standard. Or did I miss understand the DWARF specs?

[Marc]

thats what I wrote in my previous reply

[Graeme]

@Marc
Your reply was on the next forum page so I didn't see it, sorry.

[Kurt]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I'm wondering if there has been any movement on this front since April?  One thing I miss from C++ Builder/Delphi (aside from being able to inspect any variable) is the ability to single-step through individual instructions from the assembler window.  Will the native Pascal debugger have this ability?

[Marc]

You don't need a native pascal debugger for that. In theory it should be possible now, except that it isn't implemented yet. The disassembler view of lazarus needs to be improved like breakpoint support, single stepping, instructionpointer changes etc.

edit:
I mean, gdb has support for it, we only need to call it

[marcov]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I'm wondering if there has been any movement on this front since April?  One thing I miss from C++ Builder/Delphi (aside from being able to inspect any variable) is the ability to single-step through individual instructions from the assembler window.  Will the native Pascal debugger have this ability?

A few weeks ago I looked at Duby's SF project, and it hadn't had commits in 6 months.

[Graeme]

variable) is the ability to single-step through individual instructions from the assembler window. 

You can already do that with MSEide and GDB. That functionality is not implemented in Lazarus IDE yet.

And no, there has been no recent developments in Duby. :-(

[Martin_fr]

variable) is the ability to single-step through individual instructions from the assembler window.  

You can already do that with MSEide and GDB. That functionality is not implemented in Lazarus IDE yet.

And no, there has been no recent developments in Duby. :-(

This function is implemented in Lazarus. (SVN)

The default keyboard assignment is different though:
* F7/F8 => normal
* Alt F7/F8 => instruction

But it can be changed in keyboard settings, so that F7/F8 acts depending on the active window (instruction if disassembler is active, normal otherwise)

[Borneq]

How install native debuggers instead Gdb?

[Martin_fr]

How install native debuggers instead Gdb?

Afaik, you can not.

Currently only gdb is supported.