Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, September 02, 2013 07:13:20 Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 2 September 2013 07:03, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> > On Monday, September 02, 2013 06:59:00 Iain Buclaw wrote:
> >> Guess it also depends on what version of gdb you use too I guess, as iirc
> >> D
> >> support I described came in at around 7.4 release.
> > 
> > I recall it being 7.2, but it's been a while since I tried D with gdb, so
> > I
> > don't know. And it may have improved quite a bit since the last time I
> > tried (it's probably been well over a year now since I tried it with
> > anything other than tracking down a segfault). Part of my problem is that
> > I'm so used to using printf debugging now that I don't even think about
> > using a proper debugger even when I should. I usually only end up using a
> > debugger when I have no other choice (which is not the best of habits).
> 
> Yep, that's probably the one...  I think the main problem around that
> time was that dmd still emitted D arrays as longs.   So of course you
> won't get any useful information from gdb.  Giving 2.064 development a
> whirl, I see that it has now switched to emitting D arrays as structs
> so it strings (and other types of D arrays) should show up with no
> problem when debugging code generated by dmd.

That would be a huge improvement.

> >> If you are a gdc 4.8 user of course, you would have gdb 7.5 at least (as
> >> it
> >> doesn't work with earlier gdb versions).  And current development would
> >> recommend gdb 7.6
> >> 
> >> Have you given cgdb a try?  It's a curses front end to gdb, I added D
> >> syntax highlighting support a while ago for.  :)
> > 
> > I recall running into cgdb in the Arch repo and thinking of checking it
> > out, but I don't recall if I did anything beyond install it. I'll have to
> > make sure that I check it out some time soon.
> 
> I'd recommending checking out the latest development on github, as it
> includes some minor fixes to properly highlighting binary numbers,
> numbers with optional exponent, wysiwyg string literals r"...", hex
> strings x"...", and string postfixes that were added after the 0.6.7
> release.

Then I'll have to check it out sometime soon.

- Jonathan M Davis