Using of parse tree externally

[Marc Espie]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 12:39:07PM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> 
> > Why does there need to be compiler support for this?  Well, for C++ at
> > least and inhertance-based object-oriented languages in general it can
> > be extremely difficult to accumulate good cross-referencing
> > information external to the compiler.  You just have to duplicate too
> > much of the compiler's work.

> It should be possible to have some kind of dump format that suffices for
> a cross-referencing tool but that lacks sufficient information to
> interface external compiler passes to.

And how good will this be ?
I mean, there's more than cross-referencing tools to this issue.
Static code analyzers look much more appealing to me, for instance.