Debuggers

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Debugging support by compiler:

Compiler+Platform Format Debugger Supported functionality
DMD-Win32 OMF Mago/VisualD (VisualStudio) Good support: Breakpoints; Stack frames; Mostly pretty names ('.' shows up as '@'); Variable inspection;
WinDbg Supplied with the main D compiler zip file download. Overview
ddbg Doesn't seem to be working well. Project no longer maintained.
DMD-Win64 COFF VisualD (VisualStudio) TODO: same level of support as for win32?

DMD-Linux
GDC-Linux
LDC-Linux
GDC-Win32/64

DWARF GDB Good support: Breakpoints; Stack frames; Pretty names; Variable inspection;
ZeroBUGS "Modular debugger for C/C++/D programming languages (and virtually anything else that supports Stabs/DWARF debug formats)". Supported debugging functionality??
LDC-MinGW DWARF - DWARF debug symbol info seems to be broken for LLVM compiled with MinGW note

DMD-MacOS
GDC-MacOS
LDC-MacOS

? GDB Limited/outdated support? According to Jacob Carlberg:

"D symbols need to be prefixed with an extra underscore." "Line numbers don't work."

LLDB ?

Graphical debugger frontends:

Frontends providing support to a command-line debugger mentioned in the previous section.


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MonoDeveloped-based full D IDE. Has integration with the GDB debugger. "Debugging (using MonoDevelop’s integrated gdb support on Linux currently)"  ? Linux only?
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Eclipse-based IDE. Has fully working integration with the GDB debugger, including D support. (Debugging support is based on Eclipse CDT.) EPL Linux, Windows, MacOS
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Graphical frontend to the GDB debugger, which supports full D syntax from version 7.2. GPL Linux
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Command line frontend to the GDB debugger, which supports full D syntax from version 7.2.Shows code and the GDB console in split windows. GPL Linux, MacOS
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GNU DDD is a graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB. Usual front-end features such as viewing source code, viewing variables, etc. GPL Linux
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Affinic Debugger GUI .aka. ADG, is designed as a graphical user interface for various debuggers. This version is specifically targeted on GDB, the GNU debugger. Affinic Technology EULA Linux, Windows, MacOS