This is just to inform people that GDB 5.1 was released. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-announce/2001/msg00010.html Extract of the annoucement of particular interest for gpc and fpc-pascal mailing lists : ........................ What has changed in GDB? *** Changes in GDB 5.1: ........................ * Support for debugging Pascal programs. GDB now includes support for debugging Pascal programs. The following main features are supported: - Pascal-specific data types such as sets; - automatic recognition of Pascal sources based on file-name extension; - Pascal-style display of data types, variables, and functions; - a Pascal expression parser. However, some important features are not yet supported. - Pascal string operations are not supported at all; - there are some problems with boolean types; - Pascal type hexadecimal constants are not supported because they conflict with the internal variables format; - support for Pascal objects and classes is not full yet; - unlike Pascal, GDB is case-sensitive for symbol names.

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The pascal language support is essentially my work, but it is still far from complete and far from perfect. One of the latest patch applied should allow to get a nice representation of GPC strings. Please don't hesitate to report problems about pascal support .... Two reminders: -- if you really can't do what you used to do anymore with GDB, try simply to set the language to C with (gdb) set langugage c and try again if it works better. Don't forget that if you are in pascal language, pascal syntax must be used: so to change the value of a variable 'x' in the program, you will need to use (gdb) set x := 5 instead of (gdb) set x = 5 for older GDB version. In the hope that these changes will be useful for the pascal community. Pierre Muller Institut Charles Sadron 6,rue Boussingault F 67083 STRASBOURG CEDEX (France) mailto:muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr Phone : (33)-3-88-41-40-07 Fax : (33)-3-88-41-40-99