RFC: initial release of dtoh

Mihails nope at nope.nope
Wed Aug 22 11:01:02 UTC 2018


https://gitlab.com/mihails.strasuns/dtoh

Tool to grab all `extern(C)` declarations in a D module and 
generate C header file based on it. Partially addresses 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9285 but is intended to 
be much more simple (no C++, no human-readable emphasis).

Main differences from version written by Adam some years ago:

- Uses DMD frontend as a library directly
- Has tests

Former is quite intentional decision though I do expect it to be 
controversial. Using json output requires parsing information 
that is already present in DMD FE in a strongly typed way - and 
the only benefit is that the tool becomes more decoupled from 
compiler. In my opinion, this functionality _should_ be part of 
compiler itself, similar to .di generation.

Sadly can't put it on code.dlang.org right now because there are 
no tagged versions of http://code.dlang.org/packages/dmd to 
depend on, thus have to resort to submodule.


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