[cfe-dev] indexer plugin

[Manuel Klimek via cfe-dev]

+luke for somebody who knows that area

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 11:44 PM Oberhoff, Daniel via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hello dear clang hackers,
>
> I have recently begun using rtags to get some more grip on my code when
> working it in emacs. It helps me a lot, but it also uses a lot of resources
> while indexing my codebase.


We're working hard towards C++ modules, which will hopefully solve some of
the resource issues here.


> Recently I have been wondering if all that power going into parsing the
> code can be re-used to actually compile it. I was thinking that one could
> just tell the compiler to create some kind of index file along with the
> product as is possible for dependencies already.
>
> Is there anything like that? I.e. planned for clang, or as a plugin
> somewhere? How hard would it be to make what rtags uses into such a plugin?
>
> Best
>
> Daniel
>
> PS: please reply to me in person, as I am not currently subscribing this
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