Debugging support for D - wiki

[Sean Kelly]

On Sep 25, 2013, at 7:46 AM, Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+dng at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

Probably.  But it would be nice if this worked with the compiler that ships with OSX.  And for what it's worth, "gcc" on OSX isn't GCC any more either.  It's a wrapper around the LLVM C compiler.