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@dkorpel dkorpel commented Jun 1, 2026

There's a long standing problem where dmd uses global counters for generated identifiers, which depend on parsing / semantic analysis order and hence are not stable with separate compilation. This has been hacked around a bit by incorporating source locations in the identifier, but even that is not unique due to code generation constructs like static foreach and mixin(), so a fallback on a global counter was added with a partial fix that checks for the variable's scope. This PR removes the kludgy hashtable of counters system:

static struct Key { string locKey; string prefix; const(void)* parent; }
__gshared uint[Key] counters;

With stable indices based on adding an index to a Scope for static foreach (). There is now an O(n) fallback for overlapping mixin locations like:

mixin(`unittest { }`); mixin(`unittest { }`);

But that should be rare enough to be a performance problem.

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Generate `_L<line>_C<col>` names independent of parse order: drop the
global counter in generateIdWithLoc and disambiguate `static foreach`
copies with a per-Scope iteration index carried via ForwardingScopeDsymbol.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@dkorpel dkorpel force-pushed the stable-generated-ids branch from 5836ebf to 2e5ba5d Compare June 1, 2026 15:06
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