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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