Real World usage of D, Today (was Re: challenge #2: implement the varargs_reduce metafunction)

[Sean Kelly]

Thomas Kuehne wrote:
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> Thomas Kuehne schrieb am 2007-01-24:
>> Sean Kelly schrieb am 2007-01-24:
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>>> For the record, I read through the Phobos code looking for the problem 
>>> but nothing jumped out at me (and the lack of a usable stack trace 
>>> didn't help much). 
>> Have you tried Flectioned's Trace.getTrace() ?
> 
> The latest version contains a convenince function for
> gdb. Simply issue the gdb command "call print_trace ($ebp)" to print a
> stack trace.
> 
> Sample session:
> # gdb ./y
> # GNU gdb 6.4
> [...]
> # (gdb) run
> # Starting program: /tmp/y 
> # [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> # [New Thread 4158613168 (LWP 18759)]
> #
> # Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> # [Switching to Thread 4158613168 (LWP 18759)]
> # 0x0804f312 in _D3deb3fooFiZv ()
> # (gdb) call print_trace($ebp)
> # 0xFFC81E24      0x804F30B       void deb.foo(int) (0x804F2F0, 39)
> # 0xFFC81E30      0x804F30B       void deb.foo(int) (0x804F2F0, 39)
> # 0xFFC81E38      0x804F325       int main(char[][]) (0x804F318, 17)
> # 0xFFC81E68      0x8050B7B       extern(C) int main(int, char**)

Very nice!  I may just start doing all my D debugging on Linux.


Sean