Debugger options

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-02-01 11:31, Gyula Gubacsi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can somebody update me on how the compiler/debugger implementations
> are going on the 3 main platforms? What are you using, which is the
> most useful for D applications? To my knowledge, the situation is like
> this:
> * Windows: DMD->  producing CodeView debug info format. ->  No GDB support.
>                    Old version of WinDBG is in the D bundle.
>                   GDC ?
> * Linux: DMD/GDC->  producing DWARF debug info format ->  Very limited
> GDB support as GDB has no explicit D support. How does that work with
> the C style debug info? Is both GDC and DMD reliable on producing
> correct debug info?
> * Mac: I have no experience on this platform but the situation must be
> something similar to Linux.
> 32/64bit: Are there any limitation if the executable is 64bit?

GDB and DWARF is used on Mac OS X as well. 32/64bit is not a problem on 
Mac OS X, almost all libraries and tools are available in both 32 and 
64bit variants.

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/Jacob Carlborg