Global variables not accessible with Visual Studio debugger

[pdgr]

On Sunday, 24 April 2022 at 06:11:03 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
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> On 23/04/2022 15:41, pdgr wrote:
>> On Saturday, 23 April 2022 at 13:29:16 UTC, pdgr wrote:
>>> Thanks for the suggestions, the extern(C) thing doesn't 
>>> work.. but in the disassembly I can see the mangled name and 
>>> I can inspect the value in the watch window using that 
>>> mangled name. Kinda annoying but it works.
>> 
>> Scratch that.. it doesn't actually work: the disassembly 
>> doesn't not contain any mangled names, I mistook a hex value 
>> for the mangled name.
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> I suspect you are trying to watch a thread local variable that 
> uses indirect addressing.
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> With shared or __gshared variables, you see the symbol being 
> used as debug information, but the debugger cannot handle that 
> as a C++ expression.
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> You can see the mangled symbol with "pragma(msg, var.mangleof)" 
> at compile time. Using this in the watch window shows it as a 
> "void*", which you can then cast to your type using C++-Syntax, 
> e.g. "*(int*)_D3mod3tlsi".
>
> I'd recommend installing Visual D including the debugger 
> extension mago instead, though ;-)

Ok thanks for the help!