[Qt-creator] preprocessor parsing and #include

[Roberto Raggi]

On Jan 20, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Marek Jasovsky wrote:

> Hi Roberto
>
> can you imagine the preprocessor engine in creator doing recursive  
> includes while parsing, similar way as msvc compiler for example, so  
> that all includes are really included in the target cpp file, so  
> that full type checking is possible while parsing?

right.

>
>
> can you imagine some other way that would enable full type checking,  
> that does not involve really including #include files, as it is now  
> in creator?

without resolving #include(s) there is pretty much no way to create a  
correct translation unit. Think about ugly macros defined in header  
files. Like

// foo.h
#define UGLY(a) class a {};

// foo.cpp

UGLY(MyClass)
UGLY(OtherClass)

as you can see there is no way to parse correctly foo.cpp without  
#including foo.h before.

ciao robe