[llvm-dev] Need help with code generation

[David Blaikie via llvm-dev]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 9:19 AM, David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk
> wrote:

> On 23 Mar 2016, at 16:11, David Blaikie via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> >
> > if we expected the first person to write a syntax highlighter (or even
> the larger Clang Tooling/AST Matcher infrastructure) to library-ify Clang,
> those efforts wouldn't've happened
>
> Perhaps I’m misremembering, but didn’t the first person to write a syntax
> highlighter using clang write libclang, precisely because the internal
> clang APIs were changing too frequently?
>

Before my time, but quite possible - still, substantially lower cost than
librarification of all of Clang. I don't think anyone built anything like
that on top of GCC's language understanding, for example.


>
> David
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