[cfe-dev] Using Clang for a C Refactoring Tool

[Chris Lattner]

On Apr 10, 2008, at 5:59 PM, Patrick Flannery wrote:

> >Additionally, I  suspect we'd welcome code to do more in this area  
> into the tree.  I
> >think clang would be a good place to do this.
> >Also, because clang (and llvm) is built and designed as a set of
> >useful libraries for solving all sorts of problem, if there is a  
> rough
> >area where the design could be improved to meet your specific  
> needs, I
> >think we are interested in have that flexibility in clang.

>
> Refactoring is my goal as well.  I was originally attracted to clang  
> because its design yields a much more expressive tree structure with  
> detailed source locations, this makes refactoring easy in many  
> situations.  I had a brief list of refactorings that I had worked  
> on, for example renaming functions and variables, moving sections of  
> code to different files and listing #include's which are not  
> required in a given translation unit.  If there was some community  
> interest in this, I would very much like to contribute my work.  One  
> area which I have not spent enough time thinking about is what an  
> interface for refactoring should look like.  If people had some  
> suggestions regarding what they would like to see and how the  
> respective pieces should interact I would appreciate it.

This is very interesting, I'd love to see what you've been working on!

-Chris
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