[Issue 14927] GDB cannot be used to debug D programs on OS X

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14927

David Nadlinger <code at klickverbot.at> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from David Nadlinger <code at klickverbot.at> ---
(In reply to Iain Buclaw from comment #3)
> (In reply to Jack Stouffer from comment #2)
> > (In reply to Iain Buclaw from comment #1)
> > > This is why you must *NEVER* use -gc on Linux/OSX/FreeBSD.  The -gc switch
> > > marks all functions as 'C' language functions, and gdb will not attempt to
> > > demangle such functions when it loads the symbol table.
> > 
> 
> I wonder if DMD's choice of emitting symbols as _D3foo3bar instead of
> __D3foo3bar is biting them on OSX.

It certainly is for the demangling side of things.

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