New debugger coming soon!

Aldo Nunez aldoSkipallthisNunez1 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 13 16:00:09 PDT 2010


On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:43:15 -0700, F. Almeida  
<francisco.m.almeida at gmail.com> wrote:

> == Quote from Aldo Nunez (aldoSkipallthisNunez1 at gmail.com)'s article
>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:45:25 -0700, Sean Kelly
> <sean at invisibleduck.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Aldo Nunez Wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'll be posting the D debugger I've been working on at dsource
> this
>> >> week. It'll
>> >> be a set of debugging libraries that you can build your own
> debugger
>> >> with, along
>> >> with a Debug Engine plug-in for Visual Studio.
>> >>
>> >> I'll post another announcement as soon as it's available.
>> >
>> > Fantastic!  Can I attach to a running process and debug it, or
> will I
>> > have to set up a project to get symbols to display correctly?
>> I want to list all the features with the project, but I might as
> well
>> start here.
>> With the plug-in alone (meaning not launched with a project system
> like
>> VisualD), you can run an app and debug it. In that way you can
> have an
>> end-to-end debugging session with most debugging features like
> source line
>> stepping, breakpoints, and expression evaluation. Attaching to a
> running
>> process is one feature that's planned but not supported yet.
>
> Will it support gdb commands "emulation" like ddbg did? That would
> be very useful for calling from an external application that already
> supports gdb.

I agree that that would be a useful feature. I invite everyone to take a  
look at the code and build extensions like that.

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