rust-lang / rust-lang/rustc-demangle
Expose a richer description of demangled symbol.
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- Rust
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Description
This would help those who would otherwise try to parse the demangled name like cargo bloat
https://docs.rs/msvc-demangler/0.7.0/msvc_demangler/struct.ParseResult.html is an example of this for msvc style demangling.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing public demangling API and the linked msvc-demangler ParseResult documentation, then compare what structured information consumers such as cargo bloat need. Done means agreeing on and exposing a richer description of a demangled symbol without requiring callers to parse its display name.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100