Problem with BP's

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-debugger]

On 18.08.2017 00:41, Johnson Jones wrote:
> I was doing something strange ;/
> 
> I had code like
> 
> mixin(import("Myfile.d"));
> CallSomeFunctionInMyFile();
> 
> And no BP's could be hit in side the function call. D would say that 
> there was an error in the symbols for the project.
> 

debugging mixins is not really supported by the compiler. It generates 
source filenames that don't exist.

> 
> but making MyFile.d a module(adding module MyFile; at the top) and doing
> 
> import Myfile;
> CallSomeFunctionInMyFile();
> 
> Allowed the breakpoints to be hit.

That would the normal usage, too.

> 
> I guess this is a related problem with mixin debugging, which still 
> doesn't work for me. In a sense, it might be a good why to debug them 
> because the file exists already and one doesn't have to have it 
> generated by the compiler to debug. This should help get the symbols and 
> line numbers correct and the line mappings. Might help make a seemless 
> way to debug them. e.g., any BP's in Myfile.d have to be translated to 
> the original file they are mixed in at and vice versa when debugging 
> them(open Myfile D).
>