Re: Using Clang infrastructure to generate semantic databases

Marco Craveiro writes:
> David,
>
> <tool to generate semantic databases>
>> I'm planning to do this. What you are proposing would indeed be a first
>> step: creating the same tables that our current Bovine parser produces,
>> which is what we call a "tagging parser". Later on I would want to
>> extend this to full parsing, which would then also be closer to the AST.
>
> Ah, most excellent! Have you started this effort? If not, would it be
> of any help if I setup the basic infrastructure? More concretely I was
> thinking about creating a simple C++-11/14 project in GitHub that uses
> CMake to create a libtooling-based binary. It would be a copy of an
> appropriate libtooling example[1]. I can setup travis, etc. You could
> take it from there when you get time.

I've only played around with libtooling. Thanks for the offer for
setting up a project, but that won't be necessary. Besides, I'm a plain
Make guy through and through. ;-)

> Also do you have a name for the tool.

Nah, it's a bit early for that...

-David

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