Creating C++ IntelliSense with gcc front end

Creating C++ IntelliSense with gcc front end

[Klesk]

Hi

I would like to write something like Visual Studio IntelliSense and I
thought to use gcc front end to help me get necessary information from
C++ files. Because I'm a newbie in gcc development I would like to ask
if it's possible. I guess the biggest problem is performance - I mean
I can get any information I want from the tree how to update tree fast
enough (I don't want to parse entire project every time I press
ctrl+space) ?

I'm looking for any advice... for example would it be good to store
somewhere entire tree, or just identifiers and then parse only changed
parts ?

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Klesk

Re: Creating C++ IntelliSense with gcc front end

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Klesk <kleskmail@gmail.com> writes:

> I would like to write something like Visual Studio IntelliSense and I
> thought to use gcc front end to help me get necessary information from
> C++ files. Because I'm a newbie in gcc development I would like to ask
> if it's possible. I guess the biggest problem is performance - I mean
> I can get any information I want from the tree how to update tree fast
> enough (I don't want to parse entire project every time I press
> ctrl+space) ?
>
> I'm looking for any advice... for example would it be good to store
> somewhere entire tree, or just identifiers and then parse only changed
> parts ?

I think it would be hard.  You should take a look at Tom Tromey's
unfinished incremental compiler project.

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/IncrementalCompiler

Ian