Re: A guide on setting up C/C++ development environment for Emacs

[Óscar Fuentes]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> start coding one on C/C++. They could use Clang's right away, or GCC's
>> once the modularization is completed, but they insist on their own's.
>
> Actually, no, they don't insist on their own.

Well, if there exists one current plus another near-future solutions
which are vastly superior to their own parser, but they plan to continue
working on it, then yes, they are insisting on using their own parser.

>  CEDET's infrastructure is
> designed so you can use external tools.  The C/C++ support is not simply
> replaced by Clang's support because many people don't use Clang

What means "don't use Clang"? Is there some principled (cough!) stance
that forbids them from using Clang?

> (and because it predates Clang, IIUC).

This is not a reason for keeping with it, moreover as CEDET's
architecture (the one you refer to above) makes it easy to replace the
default parser.

> Also, AFAIK noone has written the CEDET binding to Clang yet,

See Dmitry's response to this.

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