Valgrind (http://www.valgrind.org/) - a suite of tools for debugging and profiling programs under Linux - now supports D code compiled with debug symbols.

Inital support was added in revision 5823 and is likely to be included in valgrind-3.2.0.

download:
http://www.valgrind.org/downloads/repository.html

Thomas

Very cool!  This works with GDC & DMD ?

Charlie
Thomas Kuehne wrote:
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> Valgrind (http://www.valgrind.org/) - a suite of tools for
> debugging and profiling programs under Linux - now supports
> D code compiled with debug symbols.
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> Inital support was added in revision 5823 and is likely to be
> included in valgrind-3.2.0.
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> download:
> http://www.valgrind.org/downloads/repository.html
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> Thomas
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This is great news :)

Thomas Kuehne wrote:
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> Valgrind (http://www.valgrind.org/) - a suite of tools for
> debugging and profiling programs under Linux - now supports
> D code compiled with debug symbols.
> 
> Inital support was added in revision 5823 and is likely to be
> included in valgrind-3.2.0.
> 
> download:
> http://www.valgrind.org/downloads/repository.html
> 
> Thomas
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Charles schrieb am 2006-04-14:
> Very cool!  This works with GDC & DMD ?

Yes.

Background:
They did a major rewrite of the handling of debugging symbols.

Thomas

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>>Very cool!  This works with GDC & DMD ?
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> Yes.
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> Background:
> They did a major rewrite of the handling of debugging symbols.
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Debugger? nice!
does it work in a windows? is there a way to get it working on windows?

Hasan Aljudy schrieb am 2006-04-16:
> Debugger? nice!
> does it work in a windows? is there a way to get it working on windows?

Valgrind isn't a "stepping" debugger - it is usually used to profile cache usage, profile the heap, detect memory leaks and detect use of uninitialised values.

Only available on Posix systems and no, Windows isn't a Posix system.

Thomas

Thomas Kuehne schrieb am 2006-04-14:
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> Valgrind (http://www.valgrind.org/) - a suite of tools for debugging and profiling programs under Linux - now supports D code compiled with debug symbols.
>
> Inital support was added in revision 5823 and is likely to be included in valgrind-3.2.0.
>
> download:
> http://www.valgrind.org/downloads/repository.html

update:

Basic demangling of D symbols is now supported.

Sample:
| Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
|    at 0x8055315: uint gcx.Gcx.fullcollect(void *) (gcx.d:59)
|    by 0x8054EED: uint gcx.Gcx.fullcollectshell() (gcx.d:1382)
|    by 0x8053FFC: void * gcx.GC.mallocNoSync(uint) (gcx.d:272)
|    by 0x8053F1E: void * gcx.GC.malloc(uint) (gcx.d:224)
|    by 0x80540E0: void * gcx.GC.calloc(uint, uint) (gcx.d:320)
|    by 0x80539EC: _d_arraysetlength (gc.d:403)
|    by 0x8049E25: void dstress.run.m.memory_management_04.C.func() (memory_management_04.d:15)
|    by 0x8049E5A: _Dmain (memory_management_04.d:24)
|    by 0x804AC5A: main (internal/dmain2.d:92)

See:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728

Thomas

Thomas Kuehne wrote:
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> Hasan Aljudy schrieb am 2006-04-16:
>> Debugger? nice!
>> does it work in a windows? is there a way to get it working on windows?
> 
> Valgrind isn't a "stepping" debugger - it is usually used to profile
> cache usage, profile the heap, detect memory leaks and detect use of
> uninitialised values.
> 
> Only available on Posix systems and no, Windows isn't a Posix system.

Well, there's always Windows Services for Unix, but as MS has dropped support for it recently it isn't a terribly attractive option.


Sean