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Avoid creation of a temporary probe file for newer compilers#1316

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@wilzbach wilzbach commented Dec 25, 2017

When I chated with @RazvanN7 today, he complained about DUB creating a lot of temporary probing files in his current working directory.
A quick look at the code revealed that DUB uses this probing hack to extract information
from DMD. Since dlang/dmd#6880 (2.076.0), it's possible
to avoid the need of creating a temporary file for this hack.
Of course, it would be better to read this file from the compiler directly...

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Thanks for your pull request, @wilzbach!


auto fil = generatePlatformProbeFile();
bool canUseStdin = this.canUseStdin(compiler_binary);
string fil = canUseStdin ? generatePlatformProbeFile().toNativeString() : "-";
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Of course we could also remove the temp file after the exit of the current scope.

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Temp files get deleted at the end of the run, would be better to make that mechanism more reliable instead of increasing the complexity for that single task.

NativePath getTempFile(string prefix, string extension = null)
{
import std.uuid : randomUUID;
auto path = getTempDir() ~ (prefix ~ "-" ~ randomUUID.toString() ~ extension);
temporary_files ~= path;
return path;
}

I'd guess the main source for the remaining temp files is dub's missing CTRL+C sigint handling, in particular in combination with dub run where you want to exit the child process, but terminate the parent instead.

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FYI: the new JSON API (e.g. dmd -Xi=compilerInfo -Xf=- has been released with 2.079 and we should be able to use it for new LDC + DMD compilers.

See also: https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#json_includes

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