On 23/09/2013 20:50, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
I'm looking to begin adding integrated debugger support for the DDT IDE
pretty soon. With this in mind it would be desirable to have a view of
what level of D language debugger support is there for the various
combinations of platform+compiler+debugger.
This information would be quite beneficial to regular D users as well,
as Manu's recent thread on the importance of a debugger is any
indication of. Yet there doesn't seem to be any info about this in the
wiki. The debuggers wiki page ( http://wiki.dlang.org/Debuggers )
doesn't even list the main players in this scene (VisualD/Mago, GDB,
WinDebugger?)
I might get started with this, but I would need to enlist the help of
other people for the other platforms/debuggers I don't have proper acess
to.
The only combinations I tried so far was DMD+Windows+GDB, which seems
like it's not supported at all. And GDC+Windows32+GDB which does seem to
be well supported (GDB understands D name mangling, breakpoints in
source, D data structures layout, etc.). I'm guessing GDC+GDB on Linux
works just as well. (what about Mac though?)
Several questions remain:
Is debugger support with DMD+Linux+GDB as good as it is with GDC?
For DMD+Windows, is there only good debugger support with VisualD? :-(
And how well does that work with 32/64 bit platform variations?
It would be great to have these answered, and going forward, keeping
track of this info in the wiki.
I've updated the Debuggers wiki page with the info gathered so far:
http://wiki.dlang.org/Debuggers
(I've also added Mono-D and Eclipse CDT to the list of frontends)
Feel free to add/modify the information in that page. In particular, a
few key missing points:
* Is the level of support for DMD-Linux as good as GDC?
* What is the level of support for LDC/LLVM? (haven't tried it yet at all)
* How complete is the debugging info for DMD-Win64? Is it fully
implemented, and/or are there any issues or limitations? (Rainer you are
likely the best to answer this one)
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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
