On Wednesday, 5 August 2015 at 15:08:46 UTC, Rick wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 August 2015 at 09:03:47 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 at 19:14:51 UTC, Rick wrote:
Unfortunately I'm regrettably having to reconsider my
decision to start a game project (or any project requiring
significant time investment) in D. Not because of the
language or compiler, but rather because of the lack maturity
in the supporting tools; specifically, a debugger. I should
say upfront that this seems to be more gravely affecting OSX
than other platforms, but scouring forums and wikis has made
it apparent that no platform is completely devoid of
obstacles when it comes to functionally debugging D programs.
To a certain extent, one can alternatively diagnose and fix
bugs with verbose logging, assertions, and exceptions; but
memory related bugs become exponentially more difficult to
work through without being able to properly breakpoint, step
through execution, and observe all variables in the current
scope.
gdb works fine on OS X and has D support.
Can you enlighten me as to what configuration you've confirmed
this on? I'm on
OSX: 10.9.5 (Mavericks)
GDB: GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1824) (building
newer from source tends to fail to compile)
DMD: DMD64 D Compiler v2.067
GCC: Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.57) (based on LLVM
3.5svn)
At best, I can _sometimes_ hit breakpoints when using Mono-D,
it's inconsistent. Even when a breakpoint is hit however, GDB
only recognizes the current 'this' value; it doesn't recognize
any frame / local variables other than 'this', global
variables, etc., though it does recognize the call-stack at
least. When using GDB directly from a terminal, the only D
source file it recognizes for the purpose of setting
breakpoints or listing source code is app.d (which contains the
main() entry-point).
Also have tried compiling with all combinations of -g, -gc,
-debug, -gs, and -cov. None seem to improve the situation.
Yeah that's apple messing with you, that gdb is old. See
http://ntraft.com/installing-gdb-on-os-x-mavericks/ for proper
installation instructions.
P.s. I help maintain homebrew packages for a bunch of D stuff,
its generally more up to date than macports and even has the
current betas/rcs as well as support for building from master.
