Re: [anjuta-devel] How to get the type of member that is a pointer using symbol-db

[Sébastien Granjoux <seb sfo free fr>]

Hi Marco,


Le 31/07/2013 14:12, Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita a écrit :
> I dream of a day where we can simply type "gcc
> --list-symbols-decl-and-use source.c" and have it to parse and
> automatically generate a good (better than ctags) output of the
> symbols declaration and usage of that source file.

clang is already existing and quite good at that but it needs all 
compiler options. On this point ctags is better.


> If we specify an
> interface that is simple enough, it would not be too hard to implement
> it in other compilers/languages. Imagine how great it would be to have
> it working for each gcc-supported language. Imagine how great it would
> be to have it working for some non-gcc-supported languages too (vala,
> java, javascript, python...).

Well, currently using ctags, you can already get some informations for 
quite some languages.


> I propose we should discuss such an interface (file format and API).
> This is something I've been dreaming of for a long time but always
> thought it was only me. I think we can make a bit of history with such
> an specification.

We can think about this.


Regards,

Sébastien