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Debugging: Some thanks is in order

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Graeme Geldenhuys

Hi,

I was one of those developers that strongly voiced my opinion on the bad state of debugging in the Lazarus IDE. Well, I am also one to give thanks when it is due...

Now is such a time. I hardly every debug directly in the IDE and stepping through code. I just did not work for me. Yesterday, I updated my Lazarus and FPC 2.3.1, and debugged some complex code reading binary data and doing pointer arithmetic. It was the first time that stepping through code and asking for variable information via tooltip debugging worked for me. :-)

So thanks again to everybody that added better debugging support in FPC and Lazarus IDE. I really appreciate your efforts, and the recent changes made a HUGE difference in the debugging experience. Awesome work!

Regards,
- Graeme -

fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

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Thierry Coq
to Graeme Geldenhuys

I second that. I have been debugging some delphi code I was porting to Lazarus, and getting the information, step by step, was very helpful.

Good work!
Thierry

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote 21 lines
Hi, I was one of those developers that strongly voiced my opinion on the bad state of debugging in the Lazarus IDE. Well, I am also one to give thanks when it is due... Now is such a time. I hardly every debug directly in the IDE and stepping through code. I just did not work for me. Yesterday, I updated my Lazarus and FPC 2.3.1, and debugged some complex code reading binary data and doing pointer arithmetic. It was the first time that stepping through code and asking for variable information via tooltip debugging worked for me. :-) So thanks again to everybody that added better debugging support in FPC and Lazarus IDE. I really appreciate your efforts, and the recent changes made a HUGE difference in the debugging experience. Awesome work! Regards, - Graeme -

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