[cfe-dev] [RFC] Embedding compilation database info in object files.

[Manuel Klimek]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Rafael Espíndola <
rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I genuinely think that having a common database is far and away the best
> > strategy for integrating tools into a development process. We should
> focus
> > on updating build systems to directly write out these databases. That
> tends
> > to be the most effective way to get the compilation database.
>
> Changing the build system used by projects is hard, and changing some
> build systems is not possible.
>
> Would you be ok with a -fcompilation-db option that makes clang record
> the necessary information to that db? By the way, any ideas how to
> handle files that are compiled more than once? For example, when cross
> compiling every file in lib/Support is compiled for the build and host
> targets.
>

Add all of them. The interface in the CompilationDatabase is:

virtual std::vector<CompileCommand> getCompileCommands(
    StringRef FilePath) const = 0;


Cheers,/Manuel
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