extern(C++) no intellisense VD

[Adam Sansier via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 06:23:11 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
> On 13.07.2016 01:13, Adam Sansier wrote:
>> When specifying a class or struct to be extern(C++), 
>> intellisense breaks.
>>
>
> Could you give a concrete example? This works for me:
>
> extern(C++) class CC
> {
> 	void foo() {}
>
> 	int xyz;
> }
>
> void fun()
> {
> 	CC cc;
> 	cc.f // expansion here
> }
>
> I think the parser more or less ignores the "extern(C++)".

I might have been wrong on this. I think it simply didn't show it 
for modifier and moved on past the problem.

There are so many issues with debugging that I feel like I will 
lose all my hair if I continue. I am so used to the 
elegance(relatively) of VS's C++ debugger with all it's helpful 
and accurate features that D feels like I'm drowning(spending 
literally 10x as long to debug code). So much obfuscation like 
effects. Cannot use registers in memory windows. EAX is invalid. 
C++ works. I have to make locals in code, rerun the program just 
to be able to get at a variable so it makes sense in the 
debugger. (e.g., if it's static, I have to make a non-static 
local variable and assign it just to see the contents). I have to 
copy addresses manually, If I leave a space, doesn't work. "e.g., 
`34245 ` is invalid. No debugsense over source code like C++ and 
C# have now. Even if it just showed the addresses, it would be 
better. Cannot copy more than one line of the disassembly, etc.

It would be nice, also, if all addresses could be set to be 
relative to base frame of app. This way different program 
executions do not show different addresses(which are pretty much 
all addresses). This would help debugging because it it would 
provide more consistency. Since sometimes we need absolute 
address view so the ability to toggle would be best.

Are there any plans to improve Visual D/Mago or is it just in the 
maintenance/limbo stage?