Patches for DMD2 interface generation: cleanup, bugfixes and prettyprinting

Norbert Nemec Norbert at Nemec-online.de
Mon Aug 30 11:54:01 PDT 2010


On 29/08/10 19:19, Sean Kelly wrote:
> Norbert Nemec<Norbert at Nemec-online.de>  wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I just spent most of this weekend digging into the DMD compiler code
>> and came up with a set of patches that might be of interest:
>>
>>      http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4713
>>
>> All started out with the attempt to create .di interface files for
>> phobos2. The resulting .di files were too ugly to read and even DMD
>> itself refused to eat them.
>>
>> Trying to fix the problem, I started digging deeper and deeper.
>> Finally, the bugs were fixed, the resulting .di files are now
>> correctly indented and readable and the compiler code itself has even
>> become a bit cleaner and more compact.
>>
>> It would be good if these patches would find their way into DMD soon.
>> The bulk of the changes are trivial but quite nonlocal, so merging
>> will quickly become difficult...
>
> Properly indented .di files?  Best patch ever.

Don't expect anything fancy at this point: just indent by two spaces on 
"{" and outdent on "}". Nothing configurable. I just chose a convention 
that works reasonably well for most code...


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