Blog post about printing associative arrays from GDB

[Johannes Riecken]

On Thursday, 24 October 2019 at 14:20:42 UTC, Mihails wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 October 2019 at 13:16:39 UTC, Johannes Riecken 
> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> That wouldn't be a considerable effort on its own (I think all 
> necessary machinery is already part of druntime.rt package) but 
> right now you would need to have druntime built with debugging 
> symbols to get anything done.
>
> For C++ standard containers it is not a problem because those 
> are defined in header files. If AA implementation was switched 
> to templates, it would "just work" for druntime too.

Cool, if you (or someone else) can give me the fields or 
functions in the druntime.rt package that can be used to print 
associative arrays from GDB, then I can try my hand at building a 
pretty-printer using GDB's Python API next week.