Show HN: Anyone interested in a tool helps to explore C++ ASTs

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Show HN: Anyone interested in a tool helps to explore C++ ASTs

(uvic-aurora.github.io)

by leomicv

I built this software to help users who need to do static code analysis for C/C++ codebase. This can help you to explore the ASTs interactively. It can replace the Clang ast dump completely and also you can search the code/ASTs in a structual way. For example you can search a function which matches specific name or number of paremeters.

enoent
014h
Nice to see another static analysis tool.
It looks like the compilation database is only used for discovering source files, without any additional cross translation unit analysis [1]. Even if you don't plan on implementing data flow tracking or other passes, it can still be interesting to know on which translation unit a function declaration is defined on.
Also, it seems we always have to recompile each unit when switching between source files. Consider pre-compiling and caching so it's only done once. That should also enable users to search across files/ASTs.
[1]: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/analyzer/user-docs/CrossTranslat...
mohamedkoubaa
019h
Is this based on or otherwise related to kythe?
leomicv • OP
02d
This is the repo: https://github.com/uvic-aurora/acav
Feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions. Thanks!
rohanucla
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