Visual D values and pointers taking lots of space

Rainer Schuetze r.sagitario at gmx.de
Tue Oct 1 06:08:35 UTC 2019



On 30/09/2019 22:09, Brett wrote:
> In the debugger windows, pointers and values in hex take a lot of space.
> In 64-bit this can take up a lot of room. Can there be an option to
> remove the extra zero's?

That's how the values are displayed for C++, too. That way you can see
the size of the data type, too.

> Basically any leading zeros on any numerical values should be removed.

I agree, an option might be good.

> 
> Also maybe hex values could use h instead of 0x, saving an extra char. I
> realize it might cause problems with copying values but it could be
> optional too.

Although a h suffix is also supported when entering values, 0x is the
way the language expects the values to be specified, so I'd rather stick
with that.


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