cv2pdb 0.1 released

[Rainer Schuetze]

Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Sat, 09 May 2009 11:27:39 +0300, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario at gmx.de> 
> wrote:
> 
>> cv2pdb is a converter of DMD CodeView debug information to PDB debug 
>> format to make debugging of D applications that were created with the 
>> DMD compiler, as seamless as possible in current versions of Visual 
>> Studio (i.e Visual Studio 2008 and VCExpress).
> 
> Awesome! (Although I believe Visual Studio already has limited support 
> for CV debug information...)

Yes, debugging in VS "almost" works for standard DMD debug info, but 
with two major drawbacks: you cannot set breakpoints (stepping through 
the code works, though) and class members are not shown correctly.
When looking at the details there are some more quirks.

> 
> A question: do you think it's possible to strip the CV debug info from 
> the executable while preserving compatibility with the PDB? I ask this 
> because this would make it possible to do remote debugging and 
> post-mortem (crash dump) analysis with closed-source applications (which 
> can't have debug information in the release executables).
> 

That should not be a big problem. The current implementation renames the 
DMD debug section. Throwing it out needs some more modifications to the 
executable, but not a lot.

Rainer