Does Moc uses handwritten C++ parser ?
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wrote on 7 Feb 2022, 07:25 last edited by
I heard that parsing C++ is really hard. So how does moc does this ? does it use libclang or libtooling ?
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I heard that parsing C++ is really hard. So how does moc does this ? does it use libclang or libtooling ?
@noone In case you don't get an answer here: moc is open source, so you can check how it is implemented.
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It's a hand-written parser. It doesn't need to understand all of C++ though, because it's only interested in class declarations etc.
As @jsulm pointed out, it's open source, see https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/src/tools/moc :)
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