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reply Peter Alexander <peter.alexander.au gmail.com> writes:
DMD outputs quite a few symbols that end with a Z. For example:

module test;
class Foo {}

Gives me these three symbols (all .data)

00013680 D _D4test4Foo16__initZ
000136e0 D _D4test4Foo16__vtblZ
00013690 D _D4test4Foo17__ClassZ


I have two questions:

1. I know what __init and __vtbl are, but what is __Class?

2. What does the Z at the end mean? The D ABI page doesn't describe this 
in its grammar, and indeed std.demangle is unable to demangle these 
symbols. It expects a type there, and Z represents no type.


Once I know this, I will fix std.demangle so that it can parse these.
Dec 04 2011
parent reply "Martin Nowak" <dawg dawgfoto.de> writes:
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:40:47 +0100, Peter Alexander  
<peter.alexander.au gmail.com> wrote:

 DMD outputs quite a few symbols that end with a Z. For example:

 module test;
 class Foo {}

 Gives me these three symbols (all .data)

 00013680 D _D4test4Foo16__initZ
 000136e0 D _D4test4Foo16__vtblZ
 00013690 D _D4test4Foo17__ClassZ


 I have two questions:

 1. I know what __init and __vtbl are, but what is __Class?
The typeinfo for a specific class, i.e. test.Foo.classinfo which is an instance of TypeInfo_Class.
 2. What does the Z at the end mean? The D ABI page doesn't describe this  
 in its grammar, and indeed std.demangle is unable to demangle these  
 symbols. It expects a type there, and Z represents no type.
It is used for additional compiler symbols. Z is used as terminal element for templates and non-variadic function arguments. You may have a look at dmd/src/tocsym.c to find the ones being used for compiler symbols.
 Once I know this, I will fix std.demangle so that it can parse these.
Dec 04 2011
parent reply Peter Alexander <peter.alexander.au gmail.com> writes:
On 4/12/11 6:47 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:
 On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:40:47 +0100, Peter Alexander
 <peter.alexander.au gmail.com> wrote:

 DMD outputs quite a few symbols that end with a Z. For example:

 module test;
 class Foo {}

 Gives me these three symbols (all .data)

 00013680 D _D4test4Foo16__initZ
 000136e0 D _D4test4Foo16__vtblZ
 00013690 D _D4test4Foo17__ClassZ


 I have two questions:

 1. I know what __init and __vtbl are, but what is __Class?
The typeinfo for a specific class, i.e. test.Foo.classinfo which is an instance of TypeInfo_Class.
 2. What does the Z at the end mean? The D ABI page doesn't describe
 this in its grammar, and indeed std.demangle is unable to demangle
 these symbols. It expects a type there, and Z represents no type.
It is used for additional compiler symbols. Z is used as terminal element for templates and non-variadic function arguments. You may have a look at dmd/src/tocsym.c to find the ones being used for compiler symbols.
 Once I know this, I will fix std.demangle so that it can parse these.
Makes sense. Next question, what should they demangle to? :-) _D4test3Foo6__initZ 1. test.Foo.init 2. test.Foo.__init 3. byte[] test.Foo.init 4. byte[] test.Foo.__init _D4test3Foo6__vtblZ 1. test.Foo.vtbl 2. test.Foo.__vtbl 3. void*[] test.Foo.vtbl 4. void*[] test.Foo.__vtbl _D4test3Foo7__ClassZ 1. test.Foo.classinfo 2. test.Foo.__Class 3. object.TypeInfo_Class test.Foo.classinfo 4. object.TypeInfo_Class test.Foo.__Class ? I would say it should be the third one for all of them. Anyone else want to weigh in on this?
Dec 04 2011
parent "Martin Nowak" <dawg dawgfoto.de> writes:
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:09:40 +0100, Peter Alexander  
<peter.alexander.au gmail.com> wrote:

 On 4/12/11 6:47 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:
 On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:40:47 +0100, Peter Alexander
 <peter.alexander.au gmail.com> wrote:

 DMD outputs quite a few symbols that end with a Z. For example:

 module test;
 class Foo {}

 Gives me these three symbols (all .data)

 00013680 D _D4test4Foo16__initZ
 000136e0 D _D4test4Foo16__vtblZ
 00013690 D _D4test4Foo17__ClassZ


 I have two questions:

 1. I know what __init and __vtbl are, but what is __Class?
The typeinfo for a specific class, i.e. test.Foo.classinfo which is an instance of TypeInfo_Class.
 2. What does the Z at the end mean? The D ABI page doesn't describe
 this in its grammar, and indeed std.demangle is unable to demangle
 these symbols. It expects a type there, and Z represents no type.
It is used for additional compiler symbols. Z is used as terminal element for templates and non-variadic function arguments. You may have a look at dmd/src/tocsym.c to find the ones being used for compiler symbols.
 Once I know this, I will fix std.demangle so that it can parse these.
Makes sense. Next question, what should they demangle to? :-) _D4test3Foo6__initZ 1. test.Foo.init 2. test.Foo.__init 3. byte[] test.Foo.init 4. byte[] test.Foo.__init _D4test3Foo6__vtblZ 1. test.Foo.vtbl 2. test.Foo.__vtbl 3. void*[] test.Foo.vtbl 4. void*[] test.Foo.__vtbl _D4test3Foo7__ClassZ 1. test.Foo.classinfo 2. test.Foo.__Class 3. object.TypeInfo_Class test.Foo.classinfo 4. object.TypeInfo_Class test.Foo.__Class ? I would say it should be the third one for all of them. Anyone else want to weigh in on this?
__init (or typeinit) seems to be a good candidate for the byte[] array in TypeInfo too.
Dec 04 2011