On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 02:51:33PM +0100, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > On Thursday, 15 March 2012 at 08:35:48 UTC, Jay Norwood wrote: > >Is there some option, similar to -E gcc option, that would > >generate the analogous listing for D? > > You could add one to the compiler in just > a few lines; there's already a function that > does it, but it isn't called from anywhere. [...] > $ cat test10.d > void main() { > auto a = 0; > } > > # we have to backup because otherwise our original source will be > lost! > $ cp test10.d test10_original.d > > # you'll have to pass the paths for phobos and druntime unless you > bring in a dmd.conf... > $ d/dmd2/src/dmd/dmd -Id/dmd2/src/druntime/import > -Id/dmd2/src/phobos -L-Ld/dmd2/linux/lib32/ test10.d > > $ cat test10.d > // Sym file generated from 'test10.d' > import object; > void main() > { > int a = 0; > return 0; > } [...]
Whoa! This is cool. I might take a stab at making this a compiler option (and writing the output to stdout instead of overwriting the original source). I think this will be VERY useful when learning the language, and also when debugging a compiler bug. T -- EMACS = Extremely Massive And Cumbersome System