I tried dmd -gc like on linux but gdb on OSX doesn't seem happy.  Is there a way to get the debuger to work with dmd on OSX?

Thanks,
Dan

On 2011-09-06 05:22, Dan Olson wrote:
> I tried dmd -gc like on linux but gdb on OSX doesn't seem happy.  Is
> there a way to get the debuger to work with dmd on OSX?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan

There are things that won't work with gdb and dmd on Mac OS X due to a bug in dmd. dmd outputs incorrect DWARF section names, or something like that.

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/Jacob Carlborg

On 06/09/2011 07:25, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2011-09-06 05:22, Dan Olson wrote:
>> I tried dmd -gc like on linux but gdb on OSX doesn't seem happy. Is
>> there a way to get the debuger to work with dmd on OSX?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>
> There are things that won't work with gdb and dmd on Mac OS X due to a
> bug in dmd. dmd outputs incorrect DWARF section names, or something like
> that.
>

No, it outputs correct section names now, there's some other issue.

I've tried to track it down but can't find it. One obvious missing step is that dmd doesn't currently use dsymutil to generate a dsym file - there's no point it doing this though currently as dsymutil crashes on binaries produced by dmd. There's something else missing or broken in dmd's DWARF output causing dsymutil to crash.

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Robert
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On 2011-09-06 18:57, Robert Clipsham wrote:
> On 06/09/2011 07:25, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2011-09-06 05:22, Dan Olson wrote:
>>> I tried dmd -gc like on linux but gdb on OSX doesn't seem happy. Is
>>> there a way to get the debuger to work with dmd on OSX?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dan
>>
>> There are things that won't work with gdb and dmd on Mac OS X due to a
>> bug in dmd. dmd outputs incorrect DWARF section names, or something like
>> that.
>>
>
> No, it outputs correct section names now, there's some other issue.

Ah, that's good.

> I've tried to track it down but can't find it. One obvious missing step
> is that dmd doesn't currently use dsymutil to generate a dsym file -
> there's no point it doing this though currently as dsymutil crashes on
> binaries produced by dmd. There's something else missing or broken in
> dmd's DWARF output causing dsymutil to crash.

Ok, I see.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg