[cfe-commits] r54076 - /cfe/trunk/www/get_involved.html

Ted Kremenek kremenek at apple.com
Fri Jul 25 16:34:30 PDT 2008


Author: kremenek
Date: Fri Jul 25 18:34:29 2008
New Revision: 54076

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=54076&view=rev
Log:
Added project idea for a doxygen-like tool built using clang

Modified:
    cfe/trunk/www/get_involved.html

Modified: cfe/trunk/www/get_involved.html
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/www/get_involved.html?rev=54076&r1=54075&r2=54076&view=diff

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--- cfe/trunk/www/get_involved.html (original)
+++ cfe/trunk/www/get_involved.html Fri Jul 25 18:34:29 2008
@@ -116,7 +116,13 @@
 libgcc, but there is a lot of room for improvement in it in many 
 dimensions.</li>
 
-</ul>
+<li><b>Implement an tool to generate code documentation</b>: Clang's
+library-based design allows it to be used by a variety of tools that reason
+about source code. One great application of Clang would be to build an
+auto-documentation system like doxygen that generates code documentation from
+source code. The advantage of using Clang for such a tool is that the tool would
+use the same preprocessor/parser/ASTs as the compiler itself, giving it a very
+rich understanding of the code.</li> </ul>
 
 <p>If you hit a bug with clang, it is very useful for us if you reduce the code
 that demonstrates the problem down to something small.  There are many ways to





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