Klesk <kleskmail@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I would like to write something like Visual Studio IntelliSense and I > thought to use gcc front end to help me get necessary information from > C++ files. Because I'm a newbie in gcc development I would like to ask > if it's possible. I guess the biggest problem is performance - I mean > I can get any information I want from the tree how to update tree fast > enough (I don't want to parse entire project every time I press > ctrl+space) ? > > I'm looking for any advice... for example would it be good to store > somewhere entire tree, or just identifiers and then parse only changed > parts ? I think it would be hard. You should take a look at Tom Tromey's unfinished incremental compiler project. http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/IncrementalCompiler Ian
