GDB - lets make D support awesome

[Iain Buclaw]

On 18 November 2013 20:52, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 11/18/2013 2:41 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've created a gdb fork on github and will be giving d-lang support some
>> love -
>> with the intention of pushing patches back to gdb development as soon as
>> possible.  The bulk of the work will be done over the next fortnight, but
>> for
>> some other work (see buglink) will take a couple more months to roll out
>> as
>> changes on both gdb and compilers need to be aligned up.
>>
>> https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9800
>>
>
> Here's a list of symbolic debug info bugs in dmd:
>
> https://d.puremagic.com/issues/buglist.cgi?keywords=
> symdeb&query_format=advanced&keywords_type=allwords&bug_
> status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED
>
> Fixing these will, of course, also help with gdb usability.
>


Yeah, I can't of course fix what debug information DMD produces, but I can
make GDB better handle D types when it is passed the correct information.

-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
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