A new debugger for Linux - would it work for D?
Bill Baxter
dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Tue Nov 21 16:18:52 PST 2006
Cristian Vlasceanu wrote:
> Hi,
> I have written a Linux debugger (so far targeting C and C++) and from
> conversations with Walter and Andrei Alexandrescu emerged the idea of adapting
> it to support D.
>
> The areas that might need some not-so-trivial effort are the stack unwinding
> (as I understood from Walter, D sometimes uses stack frame layouts that may
> not be compatible with C) and the expression interpreter.
>
> Take a look, and if you think the investment in D is worthwhile I will give it
> a shot.
>
> Thank you,
> Cristian Vlasceanu (http://www.zero-bugs.com)
That would be fantastic.
I'm primarily on Windows, but I'd probably fire up my VMWare Ubuntu
install just to be able to use a decent D debugger.
Would this be for GDC only? Or both DMD & GDC?
--bb
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