On 8/1/2013 11:07 AM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 17:37:51 UTC, 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.
Why is this not a feature in the release? Seems like a very useful feature to
have...
It's for debugging the compiler. It was never designed for general use.
