Re: IDE

[David Engster]

Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> From: David Engster <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:51:14 +0200
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> > And if anyone _really_ cares about supporting C/C++, they should be
>> > working with and on GCC's libcc1,
>> 
>> Getting the AST is not a technical problem; libcc1 does not change
>> anything.
>
> We don't even know whether libcc1 provides any features useful for an
> IDE, including information that could be used fro completion.

AFAICS, libcc1 does not provide anything new. It seems to be some kind
of library wrapper for a plugin to access gcc's frontend. It's not even
mentioned in gcc's release notes.

> We also don't know what is the final verdict on having GCC emit tree
> information.

Any year now.

> I'd expect a person who is motivated to work on these features, if we
> have such a person among us, to be on top of those two issues, as well
> as many others.
>
> But I agree: it's not a technical problem.  It's a problem of being
> motivated enough to overcome such obstacles.

Yes, I should've stuck with clang in the first place.

-David