I *was* doing something wrong... doing a ":=" (pascal-style assignment) rather than just "=" seems to work Ok.
-SG -- This email is fiction. Any resemblance to actual events or persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Seth Grover sethdgrover[at]gmail[dot]com On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Seth Grover <sethdgro...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I compile an FPC program for debug with DWARF symbols, GDB > seemingly ignores my commands to set variables or registers when > debugging: > > With STABS (or whatever the default is, ie., -gw is not set): > > Breakpoint 1, DOIT () at /home/tlacuache/tmp/project1.lpr:14 > 14 writeln(MYVAR); > (gdb) print MYVAR > $1 = 1 > (gdb) set MYVAR=32 > (gdb) print MYVAR > $2 = 32 > > With DWARF: > > Breakpoint 1, DOIT () at project1.lpr:14 > 14 writeln(MYVAR); > (gdb) print MYVAR > $1 = 1 > (gdb) SET MYVAR=32 > (gdb) print MYVAR > $2 = 1 > > Am I doing something wrong? Should I log a bug in mantis? > > -SG > > -- > This email is fiction. Any resemblance to actual events > or persons living or dead is purely coincidental. > > Seth Grover > sethdgrover[at]gmail[dot]com > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
