Give me a break

[Walter Bright]

Jason House wrote:
> Walter Bright Wrote:
> 
>> Jason House wrote:
>>> there's already someone working on getting that patch into gdb.
>> Great!
>> 
>>> I've been trying lately to play with the dmd -gc output so that
>>> gdb recognizes it properly.
>> dumpobj will pretty-print the compiler debug output. It's a handy
>> tool.
> 
> Any tips/links on usage and output interpretation would be
> appreciated. I've never read the dwarf spec and have no idea what
> should be in debug info.

Not really. I developed it by reading the spec and trying to dump the 
output of gcc.

> 
>>> I'm not very far, and my queries in #gdb have gone unanswered :(
>> That's normal. But the source to GDB is available, and that's
>> usually a lot better source of information. I prefer it to asking
>> questions and getting incorrect answers back :-(
> 
> the last time someone helped me on #gdb, they were extremely helpful
> and knowledgable. I'm hoping for a similar experience. It'd likely
> speed up my efforts 5 fold. I won't hold my breath though.
>