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Re: [cdt-dev] indexer maintenance status
  • From: Nathan Ridge <zeratul976@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:17:33 +0000
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  • Thread-topic: [cdt-dev] indexer maintenance status
Hi Tim,

>> As you know, a couple of years ago I stepped away from maintenance of CDT's 
>> homegrown parser/indexer and have been focusing on clang-based tooling instead.
> 
> I am keenly interested in something like this. I have found that CDT's indexer is able to 
> detect bugs that don't show up even in the C/C++ Code Analysis tool (and never in 
> compiler warnings or static analyzers). I don't have much experience building LLVM 
> tools, but I do have quite a bit of experience with systems programming, so I would be 
> more than happy to donate spare cycles where I can.

The specific clang-based tool that I've been contributing to is clangd [1], a C++ language server supporting the Language Server Protocol (LSP). This allows it to be used in combination with a variety of editors.

Personally, I've been using it with vscode as editor, because it has mature client-side LSP support, and I've found it suitable for my use cases. However, there's no reason clangd couldn't serve as a language intelligence backend for Eclipse as well. There has been some preliminary work done in this area (see org.eclipse.cdt.lsp.* packages), and I think continuing that would be a promising direction for keeping CDT usable with modern C++ versions.

Regards,
Nate

[1] https://clangd.llvm.org/

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