this may be a stupid idea but

[Eray Ozkural]

On Saturday 25 May 2002 16:18, Marcus Gruendler wrote:
>
> Microsoft's MSVC used to go a similar way in order to show class
> information about your project. They were simply not available when the
> source did not compile. This is especially annoying in large projects.
>

I think they have been using a .bsc (browsing source code) database for 
general purpose source browsing.

They also have a separate binary file that stores the information in class 
view I believe that's what they use for code completion.

See you,

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