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	core.internal.backtrace.libunwind
Basic D language bindings for LLVM libunwind
There are two available libunwind: The "upstream" one, inherited
 from HP, which is maintained as a GNU project,
 and the LLVM one, part of llvm-project, and the default on Mac OSX.
 They are both essential part of other languages ABI, and are available
 in both GCC and LLVM. However, in GCC, only the higher-level functions
 are exposed (e.g. _Unwind_*) while LLVM expose the higher-level
 and lower-level (unw_*) functions.
 Many distributions have a 
libunwind package as well, that provides
 the unw_* functions, but since it also supports remote unwinding,
 the function names are actually platform dependent and binding them
 is a pain as many things rely on #define.
 In the future, we would like to implement backtrace using only the
 higher-level functions (_Unwind_*), which will allow us to not
 use backtrace and friends directly, and only retrieve the functions
 names when needed (currently we need to eagerly get the functions names).
Authors: 
Mathias 'Geod24' Lang
See Also: 
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