Hi,
I have a general question about debugging emscripten projects. I can 
certainly debug individual functions in Visual Studio, and I can step 
through functions in Chrome. However, I run into challenges:

- debugging code in Visual Studio becomes more and more impossible due to 
lots of interaction with WebGL and the JS side (user interface for an 
authoring app), so there are lots of emscripten-specific calls that won't 
be debuggable in VS.
- I am working with wasm workers and pthreads. Here runtime debugging is 
needed, however, setting breakpoints in Chrome will neither give me access 
to variable values, nor to an understandable call stack. All stacks end in 
some emscripten proxy function.
- Performance profiling in Chrome crashes every time. I've spent most of 
last week looking for a performance issue, but without proper profiling it 
turned out to be very time consuming.
- Performance profiling in Firefox gives me a result that is not really 
useable, because there is so much system or Firefox related information.

Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely enthusiastic about emscripten and what 
it can do for me, and I appreciate the challenges in providing source code 
debugging in a browser without knowing the real source of the code. I just 
smell that I may miss some kind of setting that would help me overcome the 
mentioned issues. 

These are the settings I use:
emcc <list of .c files> -I ./include/ -g3 --source-map-base ./ -gsource-map 
-s ALLOW_MEMORY_GROWTH=1 
-s ENVIRONMENT=web,worker --shell-file ./index_template.html -s 
SUPPORT_ERRNO=0 -s MODULARIZE=1 -sMALLOC=emmalloc -sWASM_WORKERS 
-sOFFSCREEN_FRAMEBUFFER -sMIN_WEBGL_VERSION=2 -sMAX_WEBGL_VERSION=2 
-pthread -s PTHREAD_POOL_SIZE=2 -s PROXY_TO_PTHREAD=1 -s 
"EXPORT_NAME='wasmMod'" -s EXPORTED_FUNCTIONS="['_malloc','_free','_main']" 
-s 
EXPORTED_RUNTIME_METHODS="['cwrap','UTF16ToString','UTF8ToString','stringToUTF8','allocateUTF8','AsciiToString']"
 
-o index.html

Any help is very much appreciated.
Thanks for all the work that you put into Emscripten!

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