RE: [cdt-dev] FW: [eclipse-dev] C# plugin for Eclipse

[John Camelon <jcamelon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

CDT Big Cheese wrote on 06/15/2006 09:04:07 PM:
> One reason I'm focusing on C# is that it also uses the pre-processor.
I want
> to figure out how to properly integrate the pre-processors. The way
are in
> the CDT parser, where it pre-processes as it is scanning, turned out
to be
> difficult to get right and probably made things more complex than
they
> needed to be. And, it's not very reusable.

Most of the complexity comes from the fact that we
need to keep _real_
offset information around in order to have the navigation
features find the 
right spot in the original unprocessed file.  It
has made certain aspects of 
preprocessing nearly impossible (proper locations
for macro parameters in the DOM, 
for example).  Perhaps with your new persistance
capabilities, we can actually 
scale this a bit better by doing it in two passes
and by keeping some significant
meta-data around.

Cheers,
JohnC