I've tried to get de-mangling, line numbers and local variables working on OS X and Linux using both GDB and LLDB (multiple versions). My target is compiled with -g. So far, none of the variants work across all areas, although some produce de-mangled names and others produce line numbers (but mangled names).

I believe none of the variants produced local variables - OS X might have done under one configuration but currently I need to debug a live process on Linux. This is the most important part for me, because I can piece together the other information from other debugger executables if really necessary.

I have recently tried LLDB 3.4.2, LLDB 3.8, GDB 7.6.1 and GDB 7.11. LDC was compiled with LLVM/Clang 3.8. Target program has some non-D code - compiled using system GCC (4.8.5) - but the frame in question is D code.

Is there currently any debugger that can show local variables for LDC 1.0.0 on Linux? What is the most reliable one in general (to investigate further)?

I posted an issue on Github for this (https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/1651#issuecomment-235930281) and it seems that currently LDC 1.0.0 compiled with LLVM 3.8 does not produce good debugging info.

On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 13:48:30 UTC, Sam wrote:
> I've tried to get de-mangling, line numbers and local variables working on OS X and Linux using both GDB and LLDB (multiple versions). My target is compiled with -g. So far, none of the variants work across all areas, although some produce de-mangled names and others produce line numbers (but mangled names).
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> I believe none of the variants produced local variables - OS X might have done under one configuration but currently I need to debug a live process on Linux. This is the most important part for me, because I can piece together the other information from other debugger executables if really necessary.
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> I have recently tried LLDB 3.4.2, LLDB 3.8, GDB 7.6.1 and GDB 7.11. LDC was compiled with LLVM/Clang 3.8. Target program has some non-D code - compiled using system GCC (4.8.5) - but the frame in question is D code.
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> Is there currently any debugger that can show local variables for LDC 1.0.0 on Linux? What is the most reliable one in general (to investigate further)?

I've tried to debug DMD generated code with lldbmi2 debugger.
There was a problem with source file / line numbers when stepping, but I fixed it in lldbmi2.
Cannot get variables working - looks like debug information about function context is not compatible with llvm-db