Debugging support for D - wiki

Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net
Tue Sep 24 10:19:26 PDT 2013


On 24/09/13 00:57, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> GDB doesn't understand D mangling.  We currently leverage the use of
> setting pretty-print names for debugging purposes, but you require to
> put the names in 'quotation.marks' - I will fix this sometime this
> year... maybe. :)

When I asked about the possibility of adding D support on the Qt Creator mailing 
lists, one of my respondents remarked:

> Last time I looked the debugging info produced by some D compilers was
> pretty broken. E.g. DMD version 2.058 "encoded" the string[] type as
> "_Array_uns long long". It's hard to base proper debugging on such
> a foundation.

... are we talking about the same mangling issue here?


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