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digitalmars.D - lldb support for D programming language

reply "timotheecour" <thelastmammoth gmail.com> writes:
Is anybody planning to support the D programming language in lldb?

Currently gdb on osx doesn't support D (name mangling issues on 
osx even though it works on linux), and anyways lldb offers much 
more than gdb with interactive debugging via python scripting 
among other niceties. The gdb patch for D was actually pretty 
small, so I'm wondering whether there would be any plan for D ?

Please refer to the full post I posted on lldb-dev mailing list:
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/lldb-dev/2012-July/000986.html
(apologies for cross-posting)
Jul 08 2012
parent reply Wouter Verhelst <wouter grep.be> writes:
"timotheecour" <thelastmammoth gmail.com> writes:


 Is anybody planning to support the D programming language in lldb?

 Currently gdb on osx doesn't support D (name mangling issues on osx
 even though it works on linux), and anyways lldb offers much more than
 gdb with interactive debugging via python scripting among other
 niceties.


Not that I'm a python fan (on the opposite, in fact), but gdb has python
scripting support, too. See 
<https://misspent.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/debugging-cc-and-cpython-using-gdb-7s-new-python-extension-support/>,
for instance.

(also, gdb has "-tui", which I'm not sure lldb has)

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Jul 08 2012
parent "timotheecour" <thelastmammoth gmail.com> writes:
unfortunately OSX uses an older version of gdb and doesn't 
support either python scripting nor -tui; and the macports 
version of gdb (ggdb) doesn't work, even on the simplest 
segfaulting C program, see 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6092766/gdb-7-segfaulting.

Anyways I still think lldb is the way to go moving forward.
Jul 08 2012