DMD 0.155 release

[Don Clugston]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Tydr Schnubbis wrote:
>> The windbg that comes with dmd 0.155 is useless for me, because it 
>> runs so slow it looks like it hangs when I try to run an app with it.  
>> I didn't change any of it's settings, so it doesn't seem to work out 
>> of the box for me.  Anyone else experienced this?
> 
> No. I use windbg all the time, and I have a old (slow) machine.
> 
>> But windbg 6 (which I got from Microsoft's site) works fine most of 
>> the time.  What exactly am I missing out on by not using the old version?
> 
> Newer windbg's don't seem to support codeview 4 debug info, which is 
> what dmd generates.
> 
>> Would be even nicer if the D runtime would print line numbers itself 
>> on access violations. Or a full stack trace. :)
> 
> There's a patch to do that you can install.

Walter, is there any reason that the patch can't be incorporated into 
Phobos? Together with the -cov option (!), it does 99.9% of everything 
I've ever used a debugger for, and does it much more conveniently, too.
It's great to have windbug for the last 0.1%, of course.