Debuggers for D

[John Demme]

Cristian Vlasceanu wrote:

> John Demme wrote:
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> 
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> This newsgroup is for discussions about debuggers for D with at least
>>>> some D specific support:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Cristi Vlasceanu's ZeroBUGS for Linux:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.zerobugs.org/
>>> D support is still vapor as far as I know?  Couldn't find anything
>>> mentioned on the web page.
>>>
>> 
>> He doesn't mention it on the website, but there is some limited support
>> for
>> D.  I've been working with it a bit today.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, when it comes to debugging D code on Linux it's hard to
>> label
>> a debugger as vaporware when in fact "dmd -g" is vaporware.  I can't tell
>> what's the debugger's fault and what DMD either isn't doing or is doing
>> wrong.  Hell, #146 is still open!  I'm pretty sure that a fair of the
>> linenumber and file information is wrong, and most symbols don't appear
>> in
>> the DWARF information.  I don't mind sounding like a broken record when I
>> say that I'd be very, very happy if the next DMD had real Linux debugging
>> support.  According to Critian, it's not too hard to do with libdwarf.
>> 
> I am currently having an email exchange with Walter on the topic of line
> numbers. Which BTW, work with GDC.
> 
> Indeed, the only place I alluded to D is on the zero-bugs.com FAQ page.
> Thomas Kuehne has graciously contributed a D demangler, the Dmain
> function and the dthrow are detected, but that's about it so far.
> 
> I hope to get the D support in a better shape as soon as we fix this
> line numbers show stopper problem.

Great!

While you're at it, and Walter's knee deep in DWARF output, can you nudge
him in the direction of fixing bug #146?  If you're doing any template
programming--and I do a--it's a debugging show stopper, also.

Thanks for your work with D!

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