r218614 - Update modules documentation now that C++ support is working pretty well.

Vassil Vassilev vasil.georgiev.vasilev at cern.ch
Tue Sep 30 01:16:21 PDT 2014


That is pretty cool! Does this mean we could merge fcxx-modules into 
fmodules flags?
Vassil
On 09/29/2014 07:46 PM, Richard Smith wrote:
> Author: rsmith
> Date: Mon Sep 29 12:46:41 2014
> New Revision: 218614
>
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=218614&view=rev
> Log:
> Update modules documentation now that C++ support is working pretty well.
>
> Modified:
>      cfe/trunk/docs/Modules.rst
>
> Modified: cfe/trunk/docs/Modules.rst
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/docs/Modules.rst?rev=218614&r1=218613&r2=218614&view=diff
> ==============================================================================
> --- cfe/trunk/docs/Modules.rst (original)
> +++ cfe/trunk/docs/Modules.rst Mon Sep 29 12:46:41 2014
> @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Objective-C provides syntax for importin
>   
>     @import std;
>   
> -The @import declaration above imports the entire contents of the ``std`` module (which would contain, e.g., the entire C or C++ standard library) and make its API available within the current translation unit. To import only part of a module, one may use dot syntax to specific a particular submodule, e.g.,
> +The ``@import`` declaration above imports the entire contents of the ``std`` module (which would contain, e.g., the entire C or C++ standard library) and make its API available within the current translation unit. To import only part of a module, one may use dot syntax to specific a particular submodule, e.g.,
>   
>   .. parsed-literal::
>   
> @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ Command-line parameters
>     Enable the modules feature (EXPERIMENTAL).
>   
>   ``-fcxx-modules``
> -  Enable the modules feature for C++ (EXPERIMENTAL and VERY BROKEN).
> +  Enable the modules feature for C++ (EXPERIMENTAL).
>   
>   ``-fmodule-maps``
>     Enable interpretation of module maps (EXPERIMENTAL). This option is implied by ``-fmodules``.
> @@ -832,14 +832,11 @@ Modules is an experimental feature, and
>     Unlike with ``#include`` directives, it should be fairly simple to track whether a directly-imported module has ever been used. By doing so, Clang can emit ``unused import`` or ``unused #include`` diagnostics, including Fix-Its to remove the useless imports/includes.
>   
>   **Fix-Its for missing imports**
> -  It's fairly common for one to make use of some API while writing code, only to get a compiler error about "unknown type" or "no function named" because the corresponding header has not been included. Clang should detect such cases and auto-import the required module (with a Fix-It!).
> +  It's fairly common for one to make use of some API while writing code, only to get a compiler error about "unknown type" or "no function named" because the corresponding header has not been included. Clang can detect such cases and auto-import the required module, but should provide a Fix-It to add the import.
>   
>   **Improve modularize**
>     The modularize tool is both extremely important (for deployment) and extremely crude. It needs better UI, better detection of problems (especially for C++), and perhaps an assistant mode to help write module maps for you.
>   
> -**C++ Support**
> -  Modules clearly has to work for C++, or we'll never get to use it for the Clang code base.
> -
>   Where To Learn More About Modules
>   =================================
>   The Clang source code provides additional information about modules:
>
>
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