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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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