Andrew Sutton wrote:
Clang has the potential to be a top-notch, open-source C++ compiler and tool platform, from which we would all benefit. Let's help Clang get there sooner!
Links: Clang: http://clang.llvm.org/ LLVM: http://llvm.org/ Steve Naroff's talk motivating Clang: - Video: http://llvm.org/devmtg/2007-05/09-Naroff-CFE.mov - Slides: http://llvm.org/devmtg/2007-05/09-Naroff-CFE.pdf Clang announcement: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2007- July/009817.html
Cool... I've been wanting something like this for a while. Out of curiosity - and this probably isn't the best place to ask - but I noticed one of their stated goals is to support source code engineering tasks like refactoring, etc. The problem is that compilers aren't necessarily that good at that type of work in that they require _correct_ and probably preprocessed source code. Is there any indication on whether or not this project will support partial and incomplete parsing?
Hmm, I would expect complete and build source before I try any refactoring -- so that I can run tests before and after and veryfy nothing broke. I believe Eclipse requires all files to be saved before refactoring (this is in Java) - Volodya