Hi all,

  I would like to purpose/ask the following: In Linux, as you know, recent
versions of the OS have colored debugging output information. GCC itself
does not support coloring the debug information, but we can have it by
using a script such as the one here -
http://www.mindspring.com/~jamoyers/software/colorgcc/.
  Is it possible for this feature to be included in a future release of DMD,
i.e. to support debugging colors natively without a script? Otherwise, does
someone know about a script that can do the same job as the one mentioned
above? For myself this feature is highly desirable :)
  Thanks!

Best Regards,
Tiago Gasiba

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Tiago Gasiba schrieb am 2005-10-17:
> Hi all,
>
>   I would like to purpose/ask the following: In Linux, as you know, recent
> versions of the OS have colored debugging output information. GCC itself
> does not support coloring the debug information, but we can have it by
> using a script such as the one here -
> http://www.mindspring.com/~jamoyers/software/colorgcc/.

As far as I am aware that isn't coloured debugging output but coloured compiler messages.

>   Is it possible for this feature to be included in a future release of DMD,
> i.e. to support debugging colors natively without a script? Otherwise, does
> someone know about a script that can do the same job as the one mentioned
> above? For myself this feature is highly desirable :)

Adapting the colorgcc script for GDC should be very straight forward. Doing the same for DMD would additionaly require some change to the lines following "while(<GCCOUT>)".

Adding that feature natively to the D frontend would require some work in the "void *::error(const char *format, ...) " sections.

Maybe you try your luck to patch colorgcc and maybe port it to D? (250 lines of clean and well documented Perl)

Thomas

Thomas Kuehne hat geschrieben:

> 
> Adapting the colorgcc script for GDC should be very straight forward. Doing the same for DMD would additionaly require some change to the lines following "while(<GCCOUT>)".

I haven't tried out GDC as yet, so I can not say anything about this... I'm only using DMD.

> Adding that feature natively to the D frontend would require some work in the "void *::error(const char *format, ...) " sections.

Yes... I suspect so. Adding a flag like --color would be very simple. I personaly would just simply output the standard escape sequences found in the Linux man pages to produce colorized output...

> Maybe you try your luck to patch colorgcc and maybe port it to D? (250 lines of clean and well documented Perl)

That is exactly my problem... I known nothing about Perl. I have tried my
best to change the script (with alot of googling), but my expertise with
Perl is null. If someone knows Perl well enough to do this in 10min, I
would be very thankfull, otherwise it might take me several months to
accomplish it.
The most difficult problem I would be expecting is how to differentiate a
warning message from an error. Does DMD output any keyword like "warning:"
or "error:"?

Thanks!
Tiago

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