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v1.2.1 crashes when formatting metal shader

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the crash with the foo.metal input containing only the shown import, then inspect the linked error.txt report for the failing entry point. Done means the plugin formats this input without crashing and existing formatting behavior remains intact.

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Description

Trying to format a foo.metal file containing only the import:

#import <metal_stdlib>

crashes the plugin with the following error:

error.txt

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Objective-C++
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