I have a patch to let lldb demangle D symbols ; help welcome to improve it

[Jacob Carlborg]

On Monday, 5 March 2018 at 20:03:39 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 05:28:41 UTC, Timothee Cour 
> wrote:
>> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/lldb/pull/3
>> +
>> https://github.com/timotheecour/dtools/blob/master/dtools/lldbdplugin.d
>
> Ok, I started looking into this now. I hadn't realized that you 
> were opening an external library. I'm not sure the LLDB 
> developers are going to want to merge something like that, have 
> you asked? Would you consider adding C++ code for the 
> demangling itself instead?

Seems like they prefer a shared library and not rewriting it in 
C++ [1].

BTW, there's also GNU libiberty, bart of binutils, which Iain 
claims have better support for demangling D symbols than 
core.demangler.

[1] 
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/lldb-dev/2018-January/013199.html

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/Jacob Carlborg