• Stefan Koch (17/17) Feb 22 2017 Hello fellow compiler hackers,
• Martin Nowak (4/13) Feb 24 2017 It might be helpful for dmd, but actually inlining doesn't belong
• Ali Cehreli (9/27) May 07 2017 I've just learned about this switch, which I'm told is currently

Stefan Koch <uplink.coder googlemail.com> writes:

Hello fellow compiler hackers,

In order to debug the inliner I have implemented a switch that 
prints out the AST after all semantic processing is done.
Using the infra-structure that is already provided by hdrgen.
This has already let me to make a few improvements to the hdrgen.
For example if-else chains will no longer infinitely indent to 
the left.
Or Literals of EnumType will be printed by name rather then as 
cast(MyEnum)38943U.

I do think this is very worthwhile to have.

And would be happy to hear some opinions from you.

PS. I am aware that the printout of enum definitions is now 
broken; I know howto fix it and will do so shotly.

Lastly I should like the PR:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6556

Cheers,
Stefan

Martin Nowak <code dawg.eu> writes:

On Thursday, 23 February 2017 at 01:37:15 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
 In order to debug the inliner I have implemented a switch that 
 prints out the AST after all semantic processing is done.
 Using the infra-structure that is already provided by hdrgen.
 This has already let me to make a few improvements to the 
 hdrgen.
 For example if-else chains will no longer infinitely indent to 
 the left.
 Or Literals of EnumType will be printed by name rather then as 
 cast(MyEnum)38943U.

It might be helpful for dmd, but actually inlining doesn't belong 
into the frontend, so this is a very specific tool. Also haven't 
seen many inline bugs lately.

Ali Cehreli <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

On Thursday, 23 February 2017 at 01:37:15 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
 Hello fellow compiler hackers,

 In order to debug the inliner I have implemented a switch that 
 prints out the AST after all semantic processing is done.
 Using the infra-structure that is already provided by hdrgen.
 This has already let me to make a few improvements to the 
 hdrgen.
 For example if-else chains will no longer infinitely indent to 
 the left.
 Or Literals of EnumType will be printed by name rather then as 
 cast(MyEnum)38943U.

 I do think this is very worthwhile to have.

 And would be happy to hear some opinions from you.

 PS. I am aware that the printout of enum definitions is now 
 broken; I know howto fix it and will do so shotly.

 Lastly I should like the PR:
 https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6556

 Cheers,
 Stefan

I've just learned about this switch, which I'm told is currently 
in master. From what Stefan has shown to me, this can be handy in 
many situations because it outputs the instantiations of 
templates. (One limitation is that it currently works only with 
eponymous templates.)

I think this command or a sister of it could be improved to dump 
what is being mixed-in.

Ali