On 11/18/2013 11:41 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
Hi,
I've created a gdb fork on github and will be giving d-lang support some
love - with the intention of pushing patches back to gdb development as
soon as possible. The bulk of the work will be done over the next
fortnight, but for some other work (see buglink) will take a couple more
months to roll out as changes on both gdb and compilers need to be
aligned up.
https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9800
Great, I also want to look into this in the next few days.
Mostly improving what dmd emits.
Note #numero due:
There are a few bug reports here and there, and a few ideas I've got
scribbled down around the place. A new DIP should perhaps be created to
consolidate all these thoughts together.
Just file them in bugzilla. IMHO DIPs are for language enhancements.
Note #numero tre:
Any changes to the DWARF specification will need to be raised as a new
issue with details of change and relevant sections. Lets go through the
proper channels this time round rather than inventing tags/attributes on
the fly.
I didn't saw much need to extend any DWARF specs.
It's all there, even arrays et.al. in DWARF4.
The current D support in gdb treats every struct with a ptr and length
field as array.
I also prefixed the array types (_Array_char) so they can be recognized
better by gdb, pretty-printing is missing though and I don't know
whether the element types are correctly tagged.
