[dmd-internals] changeset 455

[Walter Bright]

Robert Clipsham wrote:
> On 28/04/10 21:06, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> should find a solution within the confines of the compiler.
>
> Catching segfaults on linux is possible, it's hard to do and rather 
> hacky though, this doesn't seem like something that should be included 
> in the unittesting functionality. I guess a seperate process could be 
> spawned for unit testing, and if a segfault occurs a message saying so 
> could be given, but anything more seems excessive, and is the job of a 
> debugger. Doesn't seem right to integrate a full debugger into every 
> app compiled with unit tests.
>

I agree, although I sympathize with not liking gdb, the solution is not 
to build a debugger into the compiler, it's build a better debugger.