Lutger Blijdestijn wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
Akakima wrote:
Changing the object module format is not sufficient. The symbolic debug
info would have to be changed (and Microsoft's is undocumented) and then
there's the dependency on Microsoft's C runtime library if linking with
VC generated object files.
I found some doc there:
http://pierrelib.pagesperso-orange.fr/exec_formats/index.html
Microsoft Symbol and Type Information
By TIS / Microsoft. Entry added 12/28/2004.
Keywords: ms, symbol, type, info
File: MS_Symbol_Type_v1.0.pdf
« This document describes Microsoft Symbol and Type Information, a
debugging information format fromMicrosoft Corporation for the 32-bit
Windows environment. »
That document describes the Codeview symbol debug format, which Microsoft
abandoned 15 years ago in favor of a proprietary format.
Dmd generates that older format :-)
Are you going to do Elf? With optlink in D? (Does that even make sense?)
Elf is not a symbolic debug format. It is possible to use Codeview with Elf.
In any case, such decisions will have to revolve around the availability of
things like debuggers.
