On 12/01/2023 11:26, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote:
It needs to determine the definition of "string" which will be an
array of
unicodechar or ansichar. Once it knows that, the rest will follow,
since the definition of unicodechar or ansichar will have the correct
size.
The big issues is still, that dwarf does not make any
(official/documented) diff between PChar, string and array of char.
Except for internal encoding details ....
I don't think this is a very reliable method. In moderately difficult
code,
half of the time the codetools don't work properly, so relying on them
to provide this info is a recipe for disaster. Hence my question...
The debugger does and should not relay on codetools.
Well, there is a case where codetool helps preparing....
If you add a watch (or hover for a hint), codetool will determine the
boundaries of the expression.
So "foo.bar" will not just add bar, but the correct term.
Or "foo.bar[x.y]" if you hover on y, will get x.y, but if you hover
on "]" will get the full term.
And codetool will resolve "with" at that time.
But that is it.
And it should be it.
Source can have changed in the mean time.
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