[cfe-dev] Improvements to AST Matcher tooling and auto usage

[Sylvestre Ledru via cfe-dev]

Hello,

Le 20/10/2019 à 00:09, Stephen Kelly via cfe-dev a écrit :
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> Hi,
>
> I presented some features at EuroLLVM in April this year relating to 
> improvements I made to AST Matcher tooling (clang-tidy and clang-query):
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>  https://steveire.wordpress.com/2019/04/30/the-future-of-ast-matching
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>
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> Some people are still interested in the features getting upstream, but 
> there is still some work for me to do in getting some of the patches 
> from presentation-quality to commit-quality. So there is still 
> motivation needed for my part. 

Excellent news. I attended to your talk and what you are proposing could 
have a huge impact on how we use AST matcher. Bravo!

One of my objective at Mozilla is to make to make custom and general 
static analysis and linting more self service and for now,
I feel that the current API has a too steep learning curve.

I don't have a strong opinion on auto itself. Just that coding style 
should be global to the project and we should not be
shy about updating it when practices are evolving.

Happy to help crossing the finish line if you need!

Cheers,
Sylvestre