Reporting unnecessary inclusion of header files.

Jonathan Wakely jwakely.gcc@gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 09:37:52 GMT 2024


On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, 09:18 Rajeev Bansal, <connectrajeev@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Jonathan. I have C++ code as well in my project, it looks like iwyu
> is compatible with llvm+clang compiler, any idea it will work with gcc as
> well?
>


I'm not sure what you mean. As I said, it is a clang-based tool. It works
with both C and C++.

No, it won't work with GCC. It uses clang libraries.


> Thanks,
> -Rajeev
>
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 2:33 PM Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 17 Jan 2024, 23:47 Rajeev Bansal via Gcc-help, <
>> gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>  I am looking for someone help on header file inclusion in C/CPP code.
>>> Can
>>> gcc help me to report the unnecessary inclusion of header files in my
>>> project? If not what are the other ways I can do it?
>>>
>>
>> No, gcc can't help with this. But there's a clang-based tool for it:
>> https://include-what-you-use.org/
>>
>>
>>
>>


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