Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[David Engster]

'josh' writes:
> Though I haven't used it myself, presumably one of these IDEs is
> Eclipse CDT[0].  According to this article[1], CDT includes a full
> C/C++ parser that's under active development (item 4) as well as
> extensive support for static analysis (item 5) and refactoring
> (item 6).  Perhaps there are technical or licensing-related issues
> (see also item 9 regarding LLVM and Clang) that would make it a bad
> fit for integrating with Emacs in some way, but otherwise it might
> be worth a look.  The wiki is here[2].

I have looked at pretty much any C++ parser out there. That includes
projects like CDT, cppcheck, KDevelop, and OpenC++. I have also looked
at gcc's AST dump (which contrary to popular opinion does exist; it
seems people don't search the web anymore). All of these are not
straightforward to use from Emacs, for various reasons, so I decided to
keep working on Semantic. I do plan to use gcc for helping with
preprocessor work, though.

-David