Hello,
I'm trying to build a smart refactoring tool for C and later C++ and want to use the gcc frontend.
After reading the relevant parts from the "Internals" manual (chapter 9 particularly), I've looked around the source code to extract the parts I need. Working my way up from the lexer and parser didn't get me very far so I figured somebody here may be willing to give me some help with this.
I could tell you a few things about where to start but if I understand the term "refactoring" correctly(I wasn't aware of it before googling) you might want to have a look at this:
http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~strasser/metacpp/
the version released atm can only process headers(->no function bodies) but full source processing incl. bodies is finished in the main.
the refactoring products I've found seem the preserve code readability which my project doesn't, but I assume you don't need this because that's not possible with GCC's parser.
-- Stefan Strasser
