DWARF output, type of char[]?

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Frits van Bommel wrote:
> Cristian Vlasceanu wrote:
> 
>> I do not know enough D, but is there "unsigned long long" an otherwise 
>> legal D type? Because if (as I supsect) it isn't, and it can be 
>> unequivocally determined that it stands for  a char[] whenever the 
>> translation unit's language is D, I could easily make it work in Zero. 
>> Out of the box.
> 
> 
> You may want to check what type "ulong" is marked as. Since that's a 
> 64-bit unsigned integer (like unsigned long long typically is) it may 
> also be marked as "unsigned long long"...

What is needed is for T[] to be marked as something special. Then you 
could treat it as described. FWIW D has it's own DWARF "language number" 
so we should be able to add new types. Then the debugger could treat it 
as said struct.

A short term hack could be to have the compiler do the magic and mark it 
as some sort of auto generated struct type.

Disclaimer: I know slightly more than 0 about how DWARF works under the 
hood.