So the -g flag isn't actually implemented on Linux. I'm OK with that. The problem I have is that the console doesn't actually tell you this; the only warning seems to be at the website.

I would appreciate it if "dmd -g something.d" outputed something like: Warning: -g flag is not implemented on Linux.

evilmrhenrynospaam@emhsoft.net wrote:

> So the -g flag isn't actually implemented on Linux. I'm OK with that. The
> problem I have is that the console doesn't actually tell you this; the only
> warning seems to be at the website.
> 
> I would appreciate it if "dmd -g something.d" outputed something like:
> Warning: -g flag is not implemented on Linux.

Actually,
using -g on Linux does do *something*. It passes -g to the linker...

> # dmd hello.d
> gcc hello.o -o hello -lphobos -lpthread -lm # dmd -g hello.d
> gcc hello.o -o hello -g -lphobos -lpthread -lm 

But I guess it's just one of those bugs that'll get fixed before 1.0 ?

> Linux Bugs
>
> * -g is not implemented, because I haven't figured out how to  do it
>   yet. gdb still works, though, at the global symbol level.

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/dcompiler.html#linux


Another thing that is missing is a symbol "demangler" for GDB,
although there is a D program that does the actual demangling:
http://svn.dsource.org/svn/projects/bindings/trunk/demangle.d

--anders