[Qt-creator] preprocessor parsing and #include

[Marek Jasovsky]

one thing more..

could you imagine having preprocessed headers stored somewhere? so that

2009/1/20 Marek Jasovsky <jasovsky.marek at gmail.com>

> grazie
>
> could you give me some hints how this could be implemented? I can imagine
> you would not like to have this in release code, and so far I have not found
> a way how to do this without breaking client->sourceNeeded method. I spent
> almost 3 hours debugging this stuff before Thorbjorn pointed me to the idea,
> that you are not doing full type check on parsing.
>
> can you imagine having this as a option in project settings?
>
> actually... what was the purpose of this one? client->sourceNeeded() ?
>
> thanks
>
> 2009/1/20 Roberto Raggi <roberto.raggi at trolltech.com>
>
> 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
>>
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