debug doesn't work?

Ramon spam at thanks.no
Thu Sep 5 15:59:40 PDT 2013


On Thursday, 5 September 2013 at 22:25:27 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:18:44AM +0200, Ramon wrote:
>> 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?
> [...]
>
> GDC uses a slightly modified form of DMD compile flags. The 
> flag you're
> looking for is -fdebug.
>
> HTH.
>
>
> T

Tried, worked - great.

Thanks for the friendly, quick fix - R


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