[cfe-dev] Precompiled headers with libclang

[Douglas Gregor]

On Apr 3, 2012, at 6:25 AM, Abhanshu Sharma wrote:

> I have actually set it 'on' already. But by running strace, I found that libclang is still accessing quite a few headers (Although Number of headers accessed reduced a bit). 
> Is this expected? 

You'll see libclang stat'ing all of the headers in the precompiled preamble, because it needs to determine whether they have changed.

> Or libclang is just expected to access preamble file? Is there any case where it can discard contents of preamble file.

If the underlying headers change, or the #includes of the source file change, the precompiled preamble will be thrown out and regenerated.

	- Doug

> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Douglas Gregor <dgregor at apple.com> wrote:
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Apr 3, 2012, at 4:00 AM, Abhanshu Sharma <abhanshu1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi cfe-devs,
> >
> > I have a particular scenario where there is a single changing source C++ file which depends on large number of header files (which are constant). What I want libclang to do is to just reparse this source file and extract rest of information from a single precompiled header file in lieu of those header files.
> >
> > I am able to serialize and deserialize a Translation unit. But I am not able to serialize a TU and use it as a library.  Does .pch files work with libclang?
> >
> > For our needs, we have 1 changing C++ source file and rest everything is constant in very large codebase. And we want to repeatedly invoke code complete or error checks on these. Is this setup possible with libclang?
> 
> Just turn on precompiled preambles in libclang. After the first reparse, libclang will automatically create a PCH file for the headers at the top of your source file and use it for subsequent reparses and code completions.
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> > Abhanshu
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> Warm Regards,
> Abhanshu

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