[PATCH] D60233: [clang-scan-deps] initial outline of the tool that runs preprocessor to find dependencies over a JSON compilation database

[Duncan P. N. Exon Smith via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

dexonsmith added a comment.

In D60233#1467092 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D60233#1467092>, @trixirt wrote:

> A comment by whisperity in the origin WIP did not seem to be addressed.
>  Have you looked at IWYU https://github.com/include-what-you-use/include-what-you-use ?
>  The end goals of clang-scan-deps and iwyu seem similar so their implementation problems would also be similar.
>  The iwyu problems doc is https://github.com/include-what-you-use/include-what-you-use/blob/master/docs/WhyIWYUIsDifficult.md


IWYU doesn't seem related to me.  My understanding is:

- IWYU checks that semantic dependencies between source files is reflected by the file dependencies (e.g., semantic dependencies should have matching `#include`s).
- `clang-scan-deps` discovers the transitive file dependencies of a TU.

IIUC, IWYU's implementation challenges are related to mapping/discovering semantic dependencies between source files, which is something that `clang-scan-deps` doesn't care about at all.  Can you clarify what link you see?


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