=?UTF-8?B?THXDrXM=?= Ferreira <contact lsferreira.net> writes:

I'm not really sure what happened but replies from <lsferreira at 
riseup dot net> is apparently getting ignored by the mailing 
list, including this report :/ Can someone verify it? Anyway, for 
people that follow my blog, I posted this 2 days ago. I'm going 
to post via the web interface, for now.

Hi D community!

I'm here again, to describe what I've done during the eleventh 
week of Symmetry
Autumn of Code.



Three more patches in the D demangling patch train got merged!

- https://reviews.llvm.org/D111415
- https://reviews.llvm.org/D114305
- https://reviews.llvm.org/D114307

I joined this week on the LLVM official team to help provide 
maintenance on the
code I introduced and planning to introduce as well as general 
changes made for
D in the official tree.

I have 2 more patches already accepted about the demangling but I 
didn't merge
them yet, as I'm having some problems on running the test suite 
locally.

Currently, LLVM already supports special D main, simple multiple 
identifiers
and anonymous symbols. Next step is to support basic and compound 
types,
although I think this needs to be split up, as discussed in some 
patches.


code

I started this week implementing basic types on the D TypeSystem, 
although, in
the meanwhile, I found that some decoupling is needed, since the 
current LLDB
architecture for parsing debug info has some entanglement with 
clang-specific
structures such as the AST Context and other TypeSystem and AST 
related
structures. I though this was something already considered, but a 
lot of effort
on this was left behind when other languages stop being 
supported, like Go.

I made some patches to move that forward in the upstream:

- https://reviews.llvm.org/D114668
- https://reviews.llvm.org/D114719
- https://reviews.llvm.org/D114746

Still about the decoupling, I found out that only DWARF Parser is 
reasonably
decoupled, but other debug info parsers like
[PDB](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/lldb/source/Plugins/SymbolFile/PDB/PDBASTParser.cpp)
are really entangled with the Clang TypeSystem. There is no 
generic interface
at the moment, and I plan to decouple that as well, although, it 
is not really
a priority for me, since my main development environment is 
Linux. That said,
I'm probably going to left Windows support as a second priority, 
for now.

I added those patches to the 
[PR](https://github.com/ljmf00/lldb-d/pull/1) I
created last week and continued working on it.



I haven't finished the type wrapper to represent a D type, due to 
those
decoupling issues. I will hopefully finish the implementation 
next week and try
to have some simple output on the LLDB side.


You can read this also on my blog,
[here](https://lsferreira.net/posts/d-saoc-2021-11/). Check out 
also my
solutions for Advent of Code, if you are also interested in :)

--
Sincerely,
Luís Ferreira   lsferreira.net

=?UTF-8?B?THXDrXM=?= Ferreira <contact lsferreira.net> writes:

On Saturday, 4 December 2021 at 15:39:07 UTC, Luís Ferreira wrote:
 I'm not really sure what happened but replies from \<lsferreira 
 at riseup dot net> is apparently getting ignored by the mailing 
 list, including this report :/ Can someone verify it? Anyway, 
 for people that follow my blog, I posted this 2 days ago. I'm 
 going to post via the web interface, for now.

*from lsferreira at riseup dot net