[SAOC 2023] dfmt rewrite - Weekly update #7
Prajwal S N
snp at dlang.org
Fri Nov 3 19:32:43 UTC 2023
Hi all,
This week has been a ton of debugging. Firstly, the codebase
refused to compile with `ASTCodegen` due to missing dependencies.
Later, upon managing to compile, the binary was crashing with a
segfault. It took a considerably long debugging session to figure
out the correct compiler flags to make the binary work. In the
process, we also discovered that the frontend was not being
initialised properly, leading to crashes originating with the
file manager while processing input.
All of this has been sorted out, and we now have a fully working
dfmt binary that uses the AST generated by `ASTCodegen`. At the
moment, it doesn't really do much apart from walking the AST, but
this is a big step towards being able to implement the formatting
passes. The next step would be to reproduce the source code by
implementing the visitors for all possible AST nodes and writing
the tokens properly.
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