debug doesn't work?

[Ramon]

The compiler switch '-debug' isn't recognized (which isn't a 
problem per se, but...)

"debug" statements in the code are ignored.
Example:

...
debug
   writeln("DBG: var X is: ", X, "'");

...

When in the debugger (gdb) the "debug" section (the 2 lines 
above) are simply ignored/stepped over.

Is this a problem or is it me not knowing how to do it properly?

Thanks -R