On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 10:37:50AM -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > On 8/1/2013 9:53 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >Y'know, one feature I've always wanted is the equivalent of > >preprocessed C code -- with all mixins expanded, aliases substituted > >with their final target, templates fully expanded, all syntactic > >sugar lowered, with the original code lines in comments, so that you > >can see exactly how your code was translated, and whether it matches > >what you *think* it does. This would also be invaluable for > >debugging, as then it will map to the assembly code much better, > >which will help you trace where things went wrong. > > I do this with a debug build of the compiler. Using --b will give > you the expression trees sent to the back end.
It'd be nice if this was documented somewhere. ;-) T -- Too many people have open minds but closed eyes.