Re: [boost] Scalpel: a Spirit&Wave-powered C++ source code analysis library

Subject: Re: [boost] Scalpel: a Spirit&Wave-powered C++ source code analysis library
From: Florian Goujeon (florian.goujeon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-08 06:27:58

  Hi Dmitry,

On 09/08/2010 12:20 PM, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
> You could use your library to build a replacement for ctags (ctags.sf.net).
>
> ctags supports over 40 languages and uses regexes to do so.
> ctags hardly copes with overloading. The user is supposed to choose among overloads.
>
> A compiler based tool should be able to do a lot better. There is a need for such an open source tool in the unix world.
Scalpel has been designed to be used by such tools.
But I guess Clang can do the job.