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Re: wish: generation of type annotation for C++11 code.
On 10 November 2011 17:36, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:54:52 +0000
> Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > That type annotation produced by g++ would be usable by external editors, etc.
>>
>> That's a pretty big assumption, and the file would be useless without
>> editor support (I realise there's a chicken and egg situation here.)
>>
>> Doesn't DWARF debug info already contain all that info anyway?
>
>
> The same argument can be used in reverse: the -M dependency output is in principle
> extractible from DWARF information (or could be provided by plugin), but GCC does provide
> it natively.
Good idea, maybe using a plugin for header dependency generation would
be a better approach, of course plugins weren't supported when that
feature was added.