On Monday, 2 September 2013 at 00:15:28 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
But I will say that debugging can and must be improved.
Currently, about
the only thing usable for dmd -g is to get a stacktrace of a
program
crash. Nothing else seems to be properly supported (I use gdb).
Stepping
through statements and setting breakpoints more-or-less works,
but I
can't get at most variables (keeps complains about being unable
to
reference 'this' or something similar), sometimes variable
values are
outright wrong or completely unrelated to the actual value,
sometimes
variables shown right on the source line being debugged don't
exist in
the debugger ('no such symbol'). Unable to look into nested
structs
without hitting odd behaviour. Doesn't understand D naming
conventions
(or does so poorly).
Basically, I've given up trying to use gdb on D programs except
when I
need to find out where a crash is happening. Using writeln
debugging is
far more productive, sadly to say. I can imagine this state of
affairs
is quite disappointing to many potential D adopters.
T
I *strongly* agree.
- Paolo
