[dmd-internals] changeset 455

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 04/28/2010 03:23 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
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> Robert Clipsham wrote:
>> On 28/04/10 21:06, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>
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> 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.

All I want is the compiler to utter the last started unittest if it 
segfaults during unittesting. Although I do agree that may be difficult 
to implement, I don't think it's a tall or unusual order.

Andrei