[cfe-dev] Getting involved with Clang refactoring

[Ronan Keryell]

>>>>> On Thu, 24 May 2012 09:08:33 +0100, David Röthlisberger <david at rothlis.net> said:

    David> For the sake of readers who, like me, don't know all the
    David> background information, here's what I've unearthed over the
    David> last hour or two:

Few years ago I read a very interesting article about the Coverity tool,
not that far from what Clang tooling infrastructure is about.
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69354-a-few-billion-lines-of-code-later/fulltext

They talk about this very issue too: how to correctly analyze the build
process?

If I remember well, after using man-in-the-middle attack against the
compiler invocations, they went into running the build process in
tracing mode to capture all the Windows subtleties for example. :-)

This is a very interesting article to read. It seems to be also
available with some related presentations too on
http://www.stanford.edu/~engler/

Parsing the output of "strace -f" may be your friend to start with on
Unix. :-)
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