D on Visual Studio?

[Martin Fuchs]

> When displaying the value of the 's'-variable, the debugger just prints 
> "18401976358273026" instead of the string content. It seems it handles 
> pointer/array values as values of type "ulong" and only displays the 
> memory address. This is all the same in Eclipse/descent, in Code::Blocks 
> and on the command line using ddbg.exe.
> The same problem applies not only to strings, but also for example to 
> int[] arrays. For example look at the "pi.d" example code and try to 
> display the 'p' and 't' array contents in the debugger.

Ooop, I must apologize a bit. I found my problem: There was an older version 
(January 2007) of the DMD compiler in my path, which seems to generate 
incomplete debug information. Using the current version, I can now also 
evaluate strings and arrays - with Descent and also in CodeBlocks.

May be I can now start writing some usefull D programs, as there are now 
"only" missing some extended capabilities like "quick view", variable 
evaluation in tooltips, smart code completition, ... in the D IDEs.  ;-)