Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

Manu turkeyman at gmail.com
Mon Aug 27 00:41:31 UTC 2018


On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 at 17:40, tide via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 23:39:32 UTC, Manu wrote:
> > You should try using VisualD to debug DMD some time. You'll
> > quickly
> > discover edge cases trying to evaluate all the relevant state
> > while
> > stepping around. C++ RTTI is a problem (can't identify derived
> > type in
> > debugger), globals are a problem, TLS is a problem.
> > The minor edge cases emerge frequently enough that they convey
> > a sense
> > of immaturity. I'll start taking note everything I encounter a
> > minor
> > debugging issue.
>
>
> It's not just VisualD, the debug info DMD produces just doesn't
> include things like global variables for some reason. I use VS
> Code to debug, I get around it by using -gc (which is now
> deprecated) and adding the variable to the watch list with the
> full name. It's a pain in the ass though.

Right. That's not even remotely acceptable.


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