At 8:23 PM +0100 8/28/09, Doug Rabson wrote: >As one or two of you know, I've been working recently on writing a >new debugger, primarily for the FreeBSD platform. For various >reasons, I've been writing it in a relatively obscure C-like >language called D (see http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/index.html >for more details including a free download of a FreeBSD D compiler. Very interesting. I've wanted to do some work with D, but (of course) haven't had the time. >So far, I have a pretty useful (if a little raw at the edges) >command line debugger which supports ELF, Dwarf debugging >information and (currently) 32 bit FreeBSD and Linux. >If anyone is interested in taking a look at a 'Technology Preview', >I've put up a git repository at >http://people.freebsd.org/~dfr/ngdb.git. To build it you need to >install 'omake' from /usr/ports/devel/omake and you will need a D >compiler. There are three options there - DMD which you can download >from http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html is free, closed >source and works pretty well. GDC is a D front end to GCC and you >can find it in ports - it works well enough but hasn't been updated >for ages. Personally, I use LDC which is a D front end to LLVM but >that doesn't build out-of-the box (I have a private hacked version >of LDC and some associated libraries). A D front-end to llvm is also very welcome. I'll have to find some time to try these out! -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn_at_rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad_at_FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USAReceived on Mon Aug 31 2009 - 06:18:58 UTC
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