Debugging support for D - wiki

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 24/09/2013 07:19, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-09-23 21:50, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>
>> (what about Mac though?)
>
> The sate of debugging on Mac OS X is worse than on Linux. There are a
> couple of problems:
>
> * D symbols need to be prefixed with an extra underscore
>
> * The GDB system debugger is very old. It doesn't have the D patches the
> upstream GDB has. Apple is using LLDB as the new system debugger
> instead, which doesn't have any D patches at all
>

Ehhh? What's up with Mac OS X and all those outdated operating system 
managed installations? (I'm referring to the similar issues with had 
with the JVM)
Can't you easily install a newer GDB yourself, outside of Mac OS 
management? If it can be done even in Windows (with Cygwin or MSYS), 
surely it can in Mac as well, no?

> * Line numbers don't work. Probably some issue with incorrect DWARF
> generated
>

What are the implications? Does this mean you canr create a breakpoint 
for a given source file line?

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer