Colleagues of DUChain

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 08.09.10 16:57:20, Paul Fee wrote:
> Over on the Boost mailing list, there's a thread about Scalpel, a source 
> code analysis library which can expose the code's structure to other 
> components such as editors.
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/208217
> 
> The conclusion was that LLVM/clang provides similar functionality and it 
> would be better to support an established project than start another project 
> tackling similar issues.
> 
> Another useful project highlighted was GCCSense
> http://cx4a.org/software/gccsense/
> 
> To me these seem to be overlap with KDevelop's DUChain.  I'm not familiar 
> enough with clang, GCCSense, DUChain or Scalpel, but do they perform similar 
> tasks and which should KDevelop be using?
> 
> Does DUChain have features the others lack or vice versa?  Would KDevelop 
> benefit from having a look at these similar projects?

The only thing we could benefit from would be a way of replacing our own
(somewhat hand-written) c++ parser (and preprocessor) with one that
supports more of the standard (especially newer features, c++0x) and
also supports C better than we do currently. That may be possible to do
within the C++ plugin, but its a huge amount of work. The rest of the
duchain (the stuff in platform) has a different aim than any of these
and hence is more-or-less unrelated.

Andreas

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