Microsoft is going to add CodeView debug information to LLVM

[Joakim via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Sunday, 1 November 2015 at 13:08:35 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I just found this announcement: 
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/45575
>
> It is a proposal how to add CodeView debug information 
> generation to LLVM and clang. This is really good news: It 
> means that we will be able to debug D code with VisualStudio. A 
> long missed feature, see issue #167. 
> (https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/167)

Yeah, they open sourced the format, mentioned in the main forum a 
couple days ago:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/qmwubmyrlxcukvlkygjc@forum.dlang.org