DMD's codeview types for arrays

[Jascha Wetzel]

How about using type mangling to add the complete array type to the
symbol name then? The mangled type could be separated from the actual
symbol name by an escape character invalid in D identifiers.
That wouldn't hurt non-D debuggers and would still enable D debuggers to
deal with arrays properly.

Walter Bright wrote:
> Jascha Wetzel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> examining the codeview symbols that DMD for windows generates, i've
>> found that it sets the symbol type of arrays to 0x23 which is UQUAD
>> (ulong in D). I can't find information on what the array's element
>> type is.
>> Can it be determined from the CV data?
>> If not, shouldn't that be possible?
>> It would be kind of cumbersome to have to parse the source for that.
> 
> I tried telling CV that arrays were really:
> 
> struct Array
> {    size_t length;
>     void *ptr;
> }
> 
> but it would get hopelessly lost with functions that returned arrays.