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Re: code completion


From: Tom Tromey
Subject: Re: code completion
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:35:33 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

>>>>> "Lennart" == Lennart Borgman (gmail) <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

>>>> http://www.gccxml.org/
>> 
Pascal> Will parsing of xml be faster in elisp than parsing C?
>> 
>> You could always make it emit sexps :-)

Lennart> Yes, seriously. Maybe those writing gcc-xml could accept it
Lennart> as an option. I guess it should be a very simple change to
Lennart> spit out elisp/lisp instead of xml, or?

Yeah.  Though... XML is important enough nowadays that Emacs really
ought to be able to parse it with good performance.  If this means
linking to an XML library written in C, then IMO it would be a good
idea.

Lennart> Is gcc some kind of generic compiler that can handle other
Lennart> languages too?

GCC has multiple front ends, but AFAIK gccxml is only for C++.

Tom





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