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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:

- https://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/man/libunwind(3).html
- https://clang.llvm.org/docs/Toolchain.html#unwind-library

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