[cfe-commits] PATCH: Adds a function to run FrontendActions over in memory code

[Manuel Klimek]

Looking for some feedback :) Negative feedback (as in: this is a
really stupid idea) would help me, too...

Thanks,
/Manuel

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Manuel Klimek <klimek at google.com> wrote:
> Adds a function to run FrontendActions over in-memory code. This is
> the first step towards a standalone Clang tool infrastructure.
> The plan is to make it easy to build command line tools that run over
> the AST of source files in a project outside of the build system.
>
> We've been experimenting with this model for tools at Google and got
> great feedback from our developers, so we now want to make that
> available to open source developers as well. I'm currently working
> with the CMake folks to get CMake to output a small Json
> compile command line database which tools can query to run over
> code. Adding support for that will be one of the next steps after this CL,
> and I'll send out a separate mail to discuss the details of that step.
>
> Cheers,
> /Manuel
>



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