Discussion on D support in gdb

[Jerry]

Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> writes:

> On 11/22/2011 7:19 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> - Can we slowly start to acquire DWARF-3/4?
>
> Dwarf 2 is good enough, so why do 3/4?
>
>> - Why were extensions chosen over say representing an array as two field struct?
>
> Because it is presumably harder to get a debugger to recognize a magic
> struct than explicitly give it a type.
>
>> - There is this request by Robert Clipsham
>> http://dwarfstd.org/ShowIssue.php?issue=100504.1.
>> What's the state of this, it wouldn't be needed any longer.
>>
>> - We should contact http://www.zero-bugs.com, it is said to support the
>> dwarf extensions and would need to be changed.
>>
>> - Find out who else is affected by changing the current extensions.
>>
>> - Fixing the D-ABI specification.
>
> Are the issues in bugzilla?

Huh, I swore I had already filed a bug regarding the AA ABI.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7008

Jerry