Beta 2.079.0

[Basile B.]

On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 08:26:06 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
>
>
> On 20/02/2018 01:58, Basile B. wrote:
>> On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 21:50:02 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19/02/2018 21:17, Andre Pany wrote:
>>>> On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 10:49:03 UTC, Martin Nowak 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.079.0 release, ♥ 
>>>>> to the 77 contributors for this release.
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> This release is fantastic!
>>>>
>>>> In the change log information about lld linker is missing. 
>>>> Maybe you can add
>>>> some info how to use it instead of link.exe (the OMF one).
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards
>>>> André
>>>
>>> LLD does not replace the OMF linker, but the MS linker for 
>>> COFF.
>>>
>>> The Windows installer also comes with platform libraries built
>> 
>> Just one step left to get an unified debug experience then: 
>> dward2 debug info for windows COFF objects.
>> 
>> Is that right ?
>
> I don't think that is planned in the near future.
>
> AFAICT DWARF debug support in dmd is not better than COFF (GDC 
> might have an edge here), but using gdb instead of the VS 
> debugger (or any other debugger suporting standard debug info) 
> on Windows is pretty uncommon.

I mean that by default we could have, under windows
- the standard C lib interfaced to MinGW stuff (instead of 
digital mars snn.lib)
- COFF objects, (instead of OMF)
- DWARF2 debug infos, so that GDB can be used.

GDB doesn't recognize OMF (and even if it did then there's the CV 
problem).

FreePascal compiler follow this pattern: COFF everywhere, and 
DWARF as format of debug infos. What i meant is that DMD is at 
one step of being able to do the same, under windows even for 
COFF objects, debug infos are not DWARF format but the MS format. 
(unless i miss something, which is possible since i don't use win 
anymore).