A new debugger for Linux - would it work for D?
freeagle
dalibor.free at gmail.com
Wed Nov 22 05:04:27 PST 2006
All current and future linux users coding in D would be very thankful,
including me!
John Reimer wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:50:30 -0800, Cristian Vlasceanu
> <cristian at zero-bugs.com> 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)
>>
>
>
> There would be a lot of support for that. Debuggers are an oft
> requested feature for D.
>
> -JJR
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