On Thursday, 24 October 2019 at 14:20:42 UTC, Mihails wrote:
On Thursday, 24 October 2019 at 13:16:39 UTC, Johannes Riecken
wrote:
GDB uses internal functions of C++'s runtime to do the
pretty-printing for C++. Implementing that for D's runtime
library in its current form would seem like a considerable
effort to me, since D's runtime library seems to be a bit
hairier with respect to the internal fields, no?
That wouldn't be a considerable effort on its own (I think all
necessary machinery is already part of druntime.rt package) but
right now you would need to have druntime built with debugging
symbols to get anything done.
For C++ standard containers it is not a problem because those
are defined in header files. If AA implementation was switched
to templates, it would "just work" for druntime too.
Cool, if you (or someone else) can give me the fields or
functions in the druntime.rt package that can be used to print
associative arrays from GDB, then I can try my hand at building a
pretty-printer using GDB's Python API next week.
