On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 17:45:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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
So your saying I have to have the debug build of dmd and run it
on my code with --b and somewhere it will output the expanded
code?
