DConf 2014 Day 2 Talk 6: Debugging in D by Iain Buclaw

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 15.07.2014 04:02, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On 15 July 2014 04:27, Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-announce
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>     On 14.07.2014 08:22, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
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>         There are alternative tools available for windows too, but I
>         think the
>         key for Windows developers remains proper integration into Visual
>         Studio, and PDB support.
>         I guess the biggest hurdle there is integrating D concepts info into
>         MS's proprietary PDB format. Expressing debug info like C really
>         won't
>         get us the full mile.
>         Rainer bundles Mago with VisualD. I wonder what that's doing
>         lately...
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>     Aldo has put a lot of work in extending mago to 64-bit. I guess the
>     next version of Visual D will come with it.
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>     Mago had D expression evaluation from the start, showing associative
>     array elements was added a bit later.
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> Have you tried it out? How does it deal with some of the cases Iain
> brought up; enum's, globals/statics, tls, etc.

It works, but not to the extend as described by Iain. Some of the issues 
need compiler support, like name symbol lookup through imports. IIRC 
unqualified globals/statics only work within the scope of their 
declaration (e.g. function statics), TLS should be ok.