[cfe-users] C++ Scoring Tool

[Jonas Toth via cfe-users]

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The people familiar with clang-format are more likely active there :)


Am 17.04.2018 um 09:40 schrieb Daniel via cfe-users:
>
> Hello, 
>
> For the senior project in my undergraduate studies, my team and I are
> developing a tool that will evaluate the format and code conventions
> of a c++ program, outputting a score and displaying useful messages,
> very much like pylint for python.
>
> The idea is kind of like clang-format except no alterations to the
> code should be made. The tool would be used as a teaching aid and
> automatic grader. To handle the beautiful diversity of c++, it
> shouldn't constrain the author to any particular style (although it
> should be able to do that too). For example: open curly braces on same
> line as function declaration compared to having them on a new line. In
> this case, the tool could check for consistency only. As long as the
> entire file has the same format, you will get a perfect score. If,
> however, there are 10 places of braces on same line and 9 on newline,
> there will be a penalty to the score, larger than if 18 on same line
> and 1 on newline. The idea is to enforce consistency without getting
> in the way of authors preferred style. This should give professors a
> robust tool to teach c++.
>
> I was hoping the clang community could help me understand the inner
> workings of clang a little bit better. Right now, my hangup is trying
> to get format data to work in conjunction with clangs AST. What I'm
> trying to do is get back the whitespace, comment, and bracket
> information that is loss during AST buildup. Suppose I want to check
> that all operators have consistent spacing format, something like "(2
> * 2)" verses "(2*2)" verses "(2* 2)". The AST will be used to get the
> semantics of that particular operator so as to not get it confused
> with the array pointer operator, but I need to count the operator
> whitespace prefix and postfix. The same concept will be applied to
> statement whitespace circumfixs. If done right, I should be able to
> refer to all operators the same way no matter the complexity of the
> expression. Something like "(x - 4) / 3 * (2 +1)" would show an
> inconsistency in the end part "(2 +1)" because of a missing space.
>
> My first thought was to use the SourceManager locational information
> to point back to the source code, then process and identify the
> whitespace from there; However, this seems wildly inefficient and
> inelegant. My second thought was to somehow get clang to keep the
> whitespace information and add it to the AST, but I believe there are
> inherent difficulties with that.
>
> My biggest problem is lack of expertise within clangs source code.
> Does anybody have any ideas on how I can get clang to give me the
> information I need to support the above functionality?
>
> Thanks for any interest. I hope this is an appropriate mailing list to
> post my question.
>
> Daniel.
>
>
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