On Sep 25, 2013, at 7:46 AM, Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24/09/2013 07:19, Jacob Carlborg wrote: >> On 2013-09-23 21:50, Bruno Medeiros wrote: >> >>> (what about Mac though?) >> >> The sate of debugging on Mac OS X is worse than on Linux. There are a >> couple of problems: >> >> * D symbols need to be prefixed with an extra underscore >> >> * The GDB system debugger is very old. It doesn't have the D patches the >> upstream GDB has. Apple is using LLDB as the new system debugger >> instead, which doesn't have any D patches at all >> > > Ehhh? What's up with Mac OS X and all those outdated operating system managed > installations? (I'm referring to the similar issues with had with the JVM) > Can't you easily install a newer GDB yourself, outside of Mac OS management? > If it can be done even in Windows (with Cygwin or MSYS), surely it can in Mac > as well, no? Probably. But it would be nice if this worked with the compiler that ships with OSX. And for what it's worth, "gcc" on OSX isn't GCC any more either. It's a wrapper around the LLVM C compiler.
