New debugger for D!!!

[Iain Buclaw]

On 28 January 2014 14:14, evilrat <evilrat666 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 13:59:48 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>
>> On 28 January 2014 13:24, evilrat <evilrat666 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 10:03:03 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> On 2014-01-28 04:00, Sarath Kodali wrote:
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>>>>> Next month I will be releasing an alpha version with support for Linux,
>>>>> x86, Elf+Dwarf, DMD and GCC.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm waiting for the OS X version :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> not going happen until dmd gets fixed. i'm not tested GDC yet, but others
>>> compilers don't emit variable address info for debug or it shown as
>>> "optimized out" values. i think it may be related to TLS because
>>> __gshared
>>> variables CAN be debugged.
>>
>>
>> 1) If it's "optimised out" then I suggest not running a debugger with
>> -O generated code.
>
>
> it is optimized out with LDC compiled program, and simply not present with
> DMD.
>

This sounds promising for GDC (I'm yet to come across some that is
along the lines of what you describe).