[Interest] [cfe-dev] The QtReslot Clang plugin

[Kevin Funk]

On Thursday, 16 February 2017 19:26:48 CET Laszlo Nagy via cfe-dev wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> would it make sense to add these tools to the External Clang Examples
> <https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ExternalClangExamples.html> page? Which is a
> file in the `docs` directory of the Clang repo.

+1.

https://reviews.llvm.org/D30252

Cheers,
Kevin
 
> Regards,
> Laszlo
> 
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 4:55 AM, Sérgio Martins via cfe-dev <
> 
> cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 7:33 PM, Richard Braun via cfe-dev
> > 
> > <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > During work on an internal Qt-based project at Novasys-Ingenierie,
> > > a Clang plugin was written to convert string-based signals and slots
> > > to the Qt5 syntax. The plugin has since been pushed to Github [1]
> > > in the hope it will be useful to others facing similar issues.
> > 
> > Hi Richard,
> > 
> > Beware that the new PMF syntax is not a drop in replacement for the old
> > style.
> > Applying these fixits on a codebase might introduce bugs.
> > 
> > Here's some things to watch out for:
> > 
> > - You can't disconnect with new-syntax if the connect was made with
> > old-syntax (and vice-versa)
> > - Difference in behaviour when calling slots of partially destroyed
> > objects (explained in <https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/83800>,
> > not sure if it will be merged. <- Thiago ??)
> > - Old style is capable of making functions "virtual" without using the
> > virtual keyword.
> > 
> > 
> > Just for fun, can you run your plugin on clazy's unit-tests
> > (clazy/tests/old-style-connect/*.cpp) and compared them to
> > *fixed.cpp.expected, to see if it converted the connects correctly ?
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Sérgio Martins
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