D on Visual Studio?

Jascha Wetzel "[firstname]" at mainia.de
Wed Sep 12 03:21:38 PDT 2007


Martin Fuchs wrote:
> OK, now I can build D programs and launch thd ddbg debugger in Code::Blocks.
> But what I am still missing is:
> 
> You can't see the contents of all varaiables. For example it isn't even 
> possible to display strings and array variables in the watch window.

i don't know about the latest codeblocks version but it used to work.
codeblocks has a hand full of bugs in the display of watch variables.
you can try other frontends for ddbg if codeblocks doesn't work properly.

> This is what I described in my initial post. So again: What exactly is the 
> problem - Is there only missing some extension to display complex types in 
> the debugger or is the information completely missing in the debug 
> information generated by the compiler? If it's only a debugger display 
> program, it's only a matter of time when the goal will be reached. In the 
> second case it might require a completely new debug info format. So the 
> compiler *and* the debugger would require some rewrite. 

the debug information and the debugger are fine. it's the frontend that 
doesn't display the debugger's output correctly. if in doubt, try using 
ddbg from the command line.



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