[cfe-dev] C++ status report web page

[Ted Kremenek]

On Jul 2, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Argiris Kirtzidis wrote:

> Ted Kremenek wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 2, 2008, at 4:45 AM, Argiris Kirtzidis wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> After a suggestion by Chris, I've added a page to track C++  
>>> support in
>>> Clang:
>>> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-commits/Week-of-Mon-20080630/006333.html
>>>
>>> Please feel free to add something I missed, change wording and/or  
>>> change
>>> the whole design of the page.
>>>
>>> Later I'll link to this page by the front page ("Current Status")  
>>> and
>>> get_involved.html ("Open Projects"/"Continue work on C++ support").
>>
>> Hi Argiris,
>>
>> I think this is a good start for a page like this.  Besides  
>> incorporating some of the feedback from the other responders, you  
>> might want to consider not using the terms "Sema", "CodeGen",  
>> "Parse", etc.  These are libraries used to implement features, and  
>> are not the features themselves.  Using these terms makes the page  
>> only useful to people who understand Clang's internals (i.e., Clang  
>> developers), and this page really should be targeted to a much  
>> broader audience (i.e., anybody who cares about C++ support in  
>> Clang).
>>
>> I would use the following terms instead:
>>
>> Parse  -> "parsing"
>> Sema -> "type checking"
>> CodeGen -> "code generation (compilation)"
>>
>> For those who know the internals of Clang, they will be able to do  
>> the reverse mapping just fine.
>
> Would it be better to do Sema->"AST building" ?

That assumes that everyone knows what an AST is, and for some people  
"parsing" == "AST building."  The meta point here is "non-Clang  
developers" includes "non-compiler people" who still want to know that  
Clang is something worth caring about.