Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Sat, 09 May 2009 11:27:39 +0300, Rainer Schuetze <[email protected]>
wrote:
cv2pdb is a converter of DMD CodeView debug information to PDB debug
format to make debugging of D applications that were created with the
DMD compiler, as seamless as possible in current versions of Visual
Studio (i.e Visual Studio 2008 and VCExpress).
Awesome! (Although I believe Visual Studio already has limited support
for CV debug information...)
Yes, debugging in VS "almost" works for standard DMD debug info, but
with two major drawbacks: you cannot set breakpoints (stepping through
the code works, though) and class members are not shown correctly.
When looking at the details there are some more quirks.
A question: do you think it's possible to strip the CV debug info from
the executable while preserving compatibility with the PDB? I ask this
because this would make it possible to do remote debugging and
post-mortem (crash dump) analysis with closed-source applications (which
can't have debug information in the release executables).
That should not be a big problem. The current implementation renames the
DMD debug section. Throwing it out needs some more modifications to the
executable, but not a lot.
Rainer
