[Issue 14927] GDB cannot be used to debug D programs on OS X

[via Digitalmars-d-bugs]

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14927

Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org> ---
> And `info variables` returns the mangled D names for variables and not their real name, despite the language being set to D and doing `demangle [some_name]` returns the correct names.

This is why you must *NEVER* use -gc on Linux/OSX/FreeBSD.  The -gc switch
marks all functions as 'C' language functions, and gdb will not attempt to
demangle such functions when it loads the symbol table.

FYI - there is a PR open that has been dwindling:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4766

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