scope guards & debugger breakpoints?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 5/21/18 1:50 PM, Robert M. Münch wrote:
> On 2018-05-21 17:24:12 +0000, Steven Schveighoffer said:
> 
>> I'm not 100% sure but I expect:
>>
>> scope(failure)
>>     someCode();
>>
>> putting a breakpoint on someCode should work.
> 
> When calling a function an then setting the breakpoint there, like in 
> someCode() yes, that should work.
> 
> I used code like this:
> 
> scope(failure) {
>      ... several lines of code
> }
> 
> And for this it seems (maybe I need to check in more detail) that in 
> MSVC, I can set a breakpoint, but the breakpoint is not triggered when 
> an exception is thrown.
> 

Seems like the debugger not understanding D source in that case.

What you could try is:

void breakOnThis()
{
    return; // breakpoint here
}
scope(failure)
{
     breakOnThis();
     ...
}

and then see where it goes when you step out of that function.

-Steve