On Saturday 15 of December 2012, Marc-André Laverdière wrote: > Sounds to me like a big learning curve is involved - which is going to > be very distracting from research activities.
Depends. It is something new to learn, but the API is rather intuitive. > If someone can give me link to a good tutorial that gives me a good > feeling about it I may bite. I don't think there's anything like that (yet, at least). The Clang tutorials I could find only say how to create a very basic plugin, which is something I've already sorted out for LO, so now it is about writing actual code using Clang internal API (http://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/). That said, at this point it should be enough just to give it a try. Under compilerplugins/clang there are already several plugins, with 2 of them (lclstaticfix.cxx and postfixincrementfix.cxx) doing code rewriting. Writing a new one would mean something like looking at what's there, compile a relevant piece of code with '-Xclang -ast-dump' options to get AST dump to see how Clang represents it internally, and write a new plugin using the relevant classes mentioned in the AST dump (and I find it much simpler to check them out in CLANGDIR/include/clang/AST/ rather than the doxygen documentation). It's not exactly trivial, but it's probably simpler to get than a lot of LO code. If you decide to give it a try, feel free to ask if you run into trouble. -- Lubos Lunak [email protected] _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
