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

[Timothee Cour]

yes, I've fixed the issue with crashes on large symbols using a
patched `demangle` ; will update code soon; but feel free to take a
look at lldb side of things




On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Luís Marques via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 11:23:02 UTC, timotheecour 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
>>>
>>>
>>> on OSX, it works great except when encountering large symbols which
>>> cause segfault when GC does a collection (triggered inside
>>> core.demangle.demangle);
>>> Help is welcome to improve that (or more generally to improve D
>>> support in lldb, which I started in
>>> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/lldb/pull/3)
>>> NOTE: lldb doesn't accept github PR's but easier to work with PR's for
>>> whoever wants to help on tha in the meantime
>>
>>
>> Specifically, the issue I'm facing is:
>> https://github.com/timotheecour/dtools/issues/2 (a crash occurs when
>> _d_arraysetlengthiT is called)
>>
>> any help would be greatly appreciated
>
>
> Thanks for working on this. I'll try to look into this in the next few days.
> (If you have further progress on this please provide an update here).