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reply Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
What's the point of DMD's -gc flag?  What does it do differently from -g 
and why would that be preferred to -g?

--bb
Feb 14 2008
parent reply BCS <ao pathlink.com> writes:
Reply to Bill,


 What's the point of DMD's -gc flag?  What does it do differently from
 -g and why would that be preferred to -g?
 
 --bb
 



it makes DMD emit C debugging data (it clames ot be c) and it's so that d 
can be debued with a C debugger.
Feb 14 2008
next sibling parent reply Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
BCS wrote:

 Reply to Bill,
 

 What's the point of DMD's -gc flag?  What does it do differently from
 -g and why would that be preferred to -g?

 --bb



 it makes DMD emit C debugging data (it clames ot be c) and it's so that 
 d can be debued with a C debugger.
 
 



Oh, BCS.  Now that I have your attention could you add me to scrapple?

--bb
Feb 14 2008
parent reply BCS <ao pathlink.com> writes:
Reply to Bill,


 BCS wrote:
 

 Reply to Bill,
 

 What's the point of DMD's -gc flag?  What does it do differently
 from -g and why would that be preferred to -g?
 
 --bb
 



 that d can be debued with a C debugger.
 



 
 --bb
 



what's your unsername?
Feb 15 2008
parent reply Paul Findlay <r.lph50+d gmail.com> writes:
 what's your unsername?




 - Paul
Feb 15 2008
parent reply Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
Paul Findlay wrote:

 what's your unsername?



 
  - Paul



Yes  :)  I sent BCS an email tellin' him so.

--bb
Feb 15 2008
next sibling parent Paul Findlay <r.lph50+d gmail.com> writes:
 Yes  :)  I sent BCS an email tellin' him so.




 - Paul
Feb 15 2008
prev sibling parent BCS <ao pathlink.com> writes:
Reply to Bill,


 Paul Findlay wrote:
 

 what's your unsername?
 



 
 - Paul
 



 
 --bb
 



your in, but your e-mail didn't get here (the address I use for posting is 
bogus)
Feb 16 2008
prev sibling parent Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
BCS wrote:

 Reply to Bill,
 

 What's the point of DMD's -gc flag?  What does it do differently from
 -g and why would that be preferred to -g?

 --bb



 it makes DMD emit C debugging data (it clames ot be c) and it's so that 
 d can be debued with a C debugger.
 
 



So basically you'd only want that if you aren't using a real 
D-supporting debugger like zerobugs or ddbg?

It seems to be the flag of choice for Linuxy folks, so I guess that's 
because they use gdb for debugging?

--bb
Feb 14 2008