On 31/03/10 10:41, Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
On Linux dmd outputs faulty debug info.
There are several bugs in the debug info on linux, one of them I've fixed (for most cases ie. anything that requires phobos, I'm working on the other cases ie. anything that needs funky libraries that use a lot of complicated function pointers), and another one you've sent me a massive test case for which I'm working down to a manageable size for a bug report now (I'd have done it by now, your make file doesn't play nicely with my multilib system though ;)). Other than those 2 bugs I don't know what else is blocking debug info on linux... I'm becoming quite familiar with DWARF/dmd's backend code for DWARF through all this debugging, so if I can get these bugs fixed I'd be happy to work on any others while I have time.
On Windows optlink crashes when building code in debug. Current situation is a complete disaster.
OPTLINK still has problems, hopefully this situation will improve as it gradually gets ported to C and eventually open sourced (or at least we can hope that happens ;)). If not I guess we need to either write a new linker, or a new backend for dmd so it can output COFF and use another linker.
Hopefully we can sort this situation out and get debug info for D on a par with C/C++ :)
