[dmd-internals] changeset 455

[Robert Clipsham]

On 28/04/10 21:06, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 04/28/2010 02:53 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> I'm not sure to what extent segfaulting is detectable, but we
>>> definitely must find good ways to address that too.
>>>
>>
>> Debuggers are the standard tool for that.
>
> I hear you but don't have one, and I swore to never use gdb. Ideally we

Why put that constraint on yourself? Debugging takes a fraction of the 
time with a good debugger eg. gdb at your hands.

> should find a solution within the confines of the compiler.

Catching segfaults on linux is possible, it's hard to do and rather 
hacky though, this doesn't seem like something that should be included 
in the unittesting functionality. I guess a seperate process could be 
spawned for unit testing, and if a segfault occurs a message saying so 
could be given, but anything more seems excessive, and is the job of a 
debugger. Doesn't seem right to integrate a full debugger into every app 
compiled with unit tests.

>
> Andrei