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Entry No.
419
Debugger
There is a limitation in the integrated debugger: It has no breakpoint indicators past the 32766th source code line.
1.02 2.01 3.0 3.01 3.02 4.0 4.01 4.02 4.03 5.0 5.01 6.0 6.01 6.02 Kylix 1.0
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Description
Reported by James Samples; checked by confirmed by Markus Gölzner
(This was posted on borland.public.delphi.ide)
James Samples:
Writing away when I notice that the breakpoint indicators are not showing up any more. And I need 'em. They mysteriously end at line 32766 in the editor. Please do not tell me this is the limit of the integrated debugger.

Markus Gölzner:
Yes, there is a limit (in the compiler, linker, debugger or IDE). We encountered the same problem and opened a support incident with Borland Support Germany. They told us it is a bug and their developers are aware of the problem. Maybe D4 will solve this issue. Currently the only solution I know is to split such a big unit into smaller ones.

Reinier Sterkenburg:
The bug still exists in Delphi 5.
But the max length of the unit is 32771 lines in my test. Strange.

Latest update of this entry: 2002-04-05

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