Blog post about printing associative arrays from GDB

[Johannes Riecken]

On Thursday, 24 October 2019 at 11:20:07 UTC, Mihails wrote:
> GDB has some dedicated functionality to improve pretty-printing 
> and expression evaluation of things that too complex to figure 
> out automatically:
>
> - https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Pretty-Printing.html
> - 
> https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Writing-an-Xmethod.html
>
> GCC, for example, provides such scripts for improved debugging 
> of C++ standard library as part of its distribution. Writing 
> something similar for DMD/GDC/LDC shouldn't be too hard.

GDB uses internal functions of C++'s runtime to do the 
pretty-printing for C++. Implementing that for D's runtime 
library in its current form would seem like a considerable effort 
to me, since D's runtime library seems to be a bit hairier with 
respect to the internal fields, no?