c++ code completion status report

[Victor Röder]

Hi!

> I'd even go further: Why parsing the files over and over to do code
> completion instead of doing an incremental parse, that is to say: look
> what changed and change the internal representation of the c code
> accordingly. That way code completion code be sped up from maybe 30
> seconds to about one. I reckon, however, that this is much more complex.

I think that there's another 'problem': The editor has to *tell* the parser 
where the code has changed. And for this we would need an additional 
interface within the KTextEditor interface.

> Maybe we'd be able to use the internal representation of gcc, or access it
> through a well defined interface to avoid having to struggle with bison,
> flex and the c preprocessor at all. If we adopted that approach, the
> incremental parsing would become a feature of gcc and other IDE's would be
> able to use it as well.

Hmmm, I don't think that GCC is the right way to go. What will people do, who 
want to use other compilers then those in the GNU Compiler Collection? Okay, 
we could insert a *compiler code completion interface* or something like that.

Just some thoughts :-).

Bye,
	Victor