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Re: Autocomplete sometimes works, sometimes doesn't [message #38681 is a reply to message #38680]

Sat, 05 January 2013 13:10

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Zbych wrote on Sat, 05 January 2013 06:47

of the place where parser stopped working Smile

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I hoped that Daniel's clang tests could improve the situation, but it appears that the idea died.

At that time it turned out I was doing things wrong and autocompletion is not so fast if windows.h is included. Also I was not able to create precompiled headers because clang had problems with parsing visual c++ extensions. According to clang's mailing list things seem to improve but it's still not in the fully usable point. Then I simply gave up. But what's possible is to use mingw headers instead, but this requires clang on windows to search for mingw files and libs. I was not able to make it work because it required changing of clang source code. But I saw such precompiled version some time ago so maybe I should try it again.
But that's not all. Qt guys went much further than me in supporting clang in their qt creator and they said that all in all clang is too slow to use it as runtime intellisense engine. But I still hope that will change. For now it's better to improve Mirek's parser.

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