Code assistance with GCC

[Chris Lattner]

On Apr 22, 2010, at 4:29 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

>> 
>> I did this because the other responses made it seem that it wasn't
>> something that would be accepted back into GCC proper.  Maintaining an
> 
> Can you point at any response that said it would not be accepted back into
> GCC proper?  There were no such comments AFAIK.  All that has been said
> is that it is not possible to implement it AS A PLUGIN,

Nope, you are correct.  Again, the cc was a mistake and I apologize for it.

> at least not currently
> and would probably require way too many hook points unless it wants to do
> only code completion after . and -> (and not e.g. after :: and many other
> tokens).  For C++ tentative parsing is probably the biggest problem that
> needs solving.

I predict it won't be accepted into GCC mainline either, but we'll see. :)

-Chris