Microsoft is going to add CodeView debug information to LLVM

[Kai Nacke via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Monday, 2 November 2015 at 07:25:01 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
> On 01.11.2015 14:08, Kai Nacke wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I just found this announcement:
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/45575
>>
>> It is a proposal how to add CodeView debug information 
>> generation to
>> LLVM and clang. This is really good news: It means that we 
>> will be able
>> to debug D code with VisualStudio. A long missed feature, see 
>> issue
>> #167. (https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/167)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kai
>
> Great news! I was thinking about tackling this, too, but will 
> leave it to the experts for now ;-)
>
> BTW: the link didn't work for me, but I guess you are referring 
> to "CodeView debug info emission in Clang/LLVM" at 
> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel

Yes, I am referring to the article in the clang group. The LDC 
issue #167 was my attempt to tackle this problem. See 
http://reviews.llvm.org/D165, too.

Regards,
Kai