On Phobos GC hunt

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 14 October 2014 at 13:29:33 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 October 2014 at 07:52:37 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 7 October 2014 at 21:59:08 UTC, Peter Alexander
>>
>> Okay,  I think I should go a bit futher with the second 
>> version of the tool.
>>
>> Things on todo list:
>> - make tool general enough to work for any GitHub based 
>> project (and hackable for other hostings)
>> - use Brian's D parser to accurately find artifacts
>> - detect "throw new SomeStuff" pattern and automatically 
>> populate potential fix line
>> - list all source links in one coulmn for the same function 
>> (this needs proper parser)
>> - use blacklist of <module-name>:<artifact name> to filter out 
>> CTFE
>> - use current data from wiki for "potential fix" column if 
>> present
>>
>
> The new version is out, it's a bit rough for a proper 
> announcement yet and misses a couple of things from my todo 
> list but the improvement is so radical I decided to share it 
> anyway.
>
> With the new pattern-matcher/parser I hacked together in on top 
> of Brain's lexer it's now surgically precise in labeling 
> artifacts. Also I retained as much as possible of original 
> comments (line numbers have changed), and grouped source links 
> per artifact.
>
> Updated Wiki:
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Stuff_in_Phobos_That_Generates_Garbage
>
> Tool:
> https://github.com/DmitryOlshansky/gchunt
>
>
> Also it's "universal" as in any github-hosted D project, for 
> example here is an output for druntime:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Stuff_in_Druntime_That_Generates_Garbage
>
> Still todo:
>  - blacklisting of modules/artifacts
>  - detect usage of (i)dup
>  - label throw new xyz as `EX`
>  - a few bugs to fix in artifact labeling

Thanks a million! That's very very useful.