Google Summer of Code 2011 application

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-03-09 13:30, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> On 08/03/2011 19:37, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I just submitted an application for GSoC 2011 on behalf of Digital Mars.
>> Please review and contribute to the project ideas page:
>>
>> http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GSOC_2011_Ideas
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrei
>
> I've added two ideas in the IDE category, for Eclipse. (dunno why this
> NG message wasn't sent earlier)
>
>
> I was thinking if anything related to debugger integration could be
> added, but I suspect (from what I recall from my conversations with Ary
> a long time ago) that adding Eclipse support for debugger should be
> fairly easy (and particularly a lot of code might from Descent might be
> reusable, since this is not much related to semantic analysis).
>
> Instead, the greatest effort comes from debugger support itself. In
> Linux OSes the situation is fine, gdb works well, but in Windows things
> are not so good. There is the ddbg debugger but it is no longer
> maintained (I'm not sure how good it still is); there is Mago the Visual
> D debugger, but from what I understand it can't properly be used from
> the command line (and thus be integrated with other IDEs); and there's
> gdb for windows, but that requires compiling and using GDC, which
> apparently has a host of issues and problems as well;
>
> I wonder what is the best way to address these issues. I definitely hope
> the Windows platform doesn't further become a second-rate target for D
> development.
>

GDB doesn't work on Mac OS X as well as it does on Linux. Anything 
related to line number won't work. DMD still can't output the correct 
DWARF info on Mac OS X.

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/Jacob Carlborg