[cfe-dev] Clang API

[Daniel Herring]

[just one small-time user's comments]

On Thu, 26 May 2011, Joshua Cranmer wrote:

> I have started working recently on a tool to create cross-reference
> information using clang's libindex instead of using gcc as before. The
> original API I used can be found at
> <https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Dehydra/Object_Reference> (it's only a
> partial documentation; there is a link on that page to a tool which
> provides a complete dump for any snippet of source code).
>
> Since I have found some of the C API cumbersome to use, I will be using
> a wrapper internally to provide an API similar to Dehydra's API; I was
> wondering if you would be interested in accepting this kind of wrapper
> as a higher-level API than what clang-c currently exposes.

The Clang-c API isn't perfect, but it seems more "bare bones" than 
Dehydra's API.  For my purposes, that is a good thing, but I understand 
why others may prefer Dehydra.

Is there a need to put a Dehydra-like API in Clang, or would it suffice
for Clang's documentation to mention your binding?  You are planning to 
keep maintaining Dehydra as a separate project, right?

- Daniel