GSOC 2012

[Milian Wolff]

On Friday 17 February 2012 11:00:21 Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> How about a project for a DUChain builder based on CLang? Provided
> this is doable (I played a little bit with CLang and don't see any
> reason why it would not be so far), there are many advantages:
> 
> - Full support for C/C++/C++11, languages features would not be mixed
> as they currently are (i.e. a C project would raise errors on 'class'
> and such),
> - Better error reporting (and in sync with actual compiler messages
> when people start using CLang instead of gcc)
> - Would relief KDevelopers from having a maintain a language parser,
> which is a huge cost in terms of manpower - would let them truly
> concentrate on IDE aspects
> 
> Recently CLang has come to the point where it is capable of compiling
> Qt and the Linux kernel, this says a lot about how close to being 100%
> gcc-compatible it has become. CLang libraries provide a full AST of a
> program in a reasonnable time and also have many configuration options
> as to how parsing should be performed. With such a powerful tool at
> hand I do not see the need to maintain one's own parser.

Not appropriate for a GSOC project. And afaiks CLang still does not give any 
stable ABI/API promise nor are their development files shipped on the major 
distributions.

Hence: Not something we should work on now. But I agree that it could be 
helpful in the future.

Bye
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Milian Wolff
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