Hi all!

I just found this announcement: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/45575

It is a proposal how to add CodeView debug information generation to LLVM and clang. This is really good news: It means that we will be able to debug D code with VisualStudio. A long missed feature, see issue #167. (https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/167)

Regards,
Kai

On Sunday, 1 November 2015 at 13:08:35 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I just found this announcement: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/45575
>
> It is a proposal how to add CodeView debug information generation to LLVM and clang. This is really good news: It means that we will be able to debug D code with VisualStudio. A long missed feature, see issue #167. (https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/167)

Yeah, they open sourced the format, mentioned in the main forum a couple days ago:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/qmwubmyrlxcukvlkygjc@forum.dlang.org

On 01.11.2015 14:08, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I just found this announcement:
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/45575
>
> It is a proposal how to add CodeView debug information generation to
> LLVM and clang. This is really good news: It means that we will be able
> to debug D code with VisualStudio. A long missed feature, see issue
> #167. (https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/167)
>
> Regards,
> Kai

Great news! I was thinking about tackling this, too, but will leave it to the experts for now ;-)

BTW: the link didn't work for me, but I guess you are referring to "CodeView debug info emission in Clang/LLVM" at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel

On Monday, 2 November 2015 at 07:25:01 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
> On 01.11.2015 14:08, Kai Nacke wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I just found this announcement:
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/45575
>>
>> It is a proposal how to add CodeView debug information generation to
>> LLVM and clang. This is really good news: It means that we will be able
>> to debug D code with VisualStudio. A long missed feature, see issue
>> #167. (https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/167)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kai
>
> Great news! I was thinking about tackling this, too, but will leave it to the experts for now ;-)
>
> BTW: the link didn't work for me, but I guess you are referring to "CodeView debug info emission in Clang/LLVM" at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel

Yes, I am referring to the article in the clang group. The LDC issue #167 was my attempt to tackle this problem. See http://reviews.llvm.org/D165, too.

Regards,
Kai