Using compiler error information to check undocumented prototypes and structures?

Qian Hong fracting at gmail.com
Sat Mar 7 09:36:52 CST 2015


On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Vincent Povirk <madewokherd at gmail.com> wrote:
> At least in MFC headers, public fields are not always documented, and
> many could be considered implementation details. It's not obvious
> where that line should be drawn. And sometimes the headers contain
> inline function implementations, which are effectively part of the
> ABI.
>
Good point, thanks a lot for the information.

> For projects where "public" means things that are intended to be part
> of the API, maybe this could work, but I'm not aware of any that we
> need to replace.
>
> Is this about any library in particular?

No, it is not for any particular library, I'm interesting in a general
solution to solve all undocumented situation including mfc and msvcp
and any other libraries. But it is not an urgent task, it's just
something like brainstorm. I was also wondering if writing such a
general tool could be consider a GSoC idea.


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Qian Hong

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