Re: Will we ever be able to refactor C++?
Re: Will we ever be able to refactor C++?
- Subject: Re: Will we ever be able to refactor C++?
- From: Jeffrey Walton <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:53:45 -0500
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Tom Davie <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On 25 Jan 2013, at 08:50, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I thought because Xcode depended on the clang front end for all of its code coverage features, that it would eventually be able to refactor C++. As I understood it, it didn't refactor C++ in the past because clang's C++ support was still insufficient.
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>> But clang is a very good C++ compiler now. Yet Xcode still balks at even renaming symbols (the only refactoring I've ever needed).
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>> Any chance we'll see C++ support in the foreseeable future?
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> I believe google's clang team is working very hard on a refactoring library based on clang. This supports C++. We can but hope apple will back port into their clang libraries, and Xcode.
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Things could get tricky because neither Apple nor Google are good
about pushing changes back upstream in a usable way. While the forks
might help folks using Apple or Google flavors of the library, efforts
will likely be of little use the the general population.
I also understand many folks are not interested in general community
benefit. (But it sure would be nice if modern GDB worked on Apple's
gear, even if just pre-Clang/LLVM).
Jeff
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