Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-09-02 05:46, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> I feared as much. :-(
>
> My guess is that gdb actually uses a superset of Dwarf, with its own
> idiosyncratic extensions that only gcc knows about.  I remember in the
> early days when I was on Solaris, gdb wouldn't understand debugging
> symbols from the native Sun compiler, and the native debugger wouldn't
> understand gcc debugging symbols, or only understood a subset of it so
> certain features are missing.
>
> Which, unfortunately, means that only gdc stands a chance of being
> usable with gdb. (Which makes it a very good thing indeed that we have
> Iain on board!)
>
> Maybe we should write our own debugger in D ... ;-) (OK, that may be too
> big a chunk to chew off right now. But, one can dream.)

There's always LLDB.

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/Jacob Carlborg