Clang-Scan-Deps Lands In Clang 9.0 For Much Faster Dependency Scanning

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Clang-Scan-Deps Lands In Clang 9.0 For Much Faster Dependency Scanning

Landing this week in the LLVM Clang 9.0 development code-base is the new clang-scan-deps tool for much faster scanning of files for dependencies compared to the traditional pre-processor based approach...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Clang-Scan-Deps

[jacob]

I can't wait for the VUAs to start whining that this is not the Unix Philosophy and that Clang has no business infringing on their C Preprocessor Freedom (tm).

[kpedersen]

I can't wait for the VUAs to start whining that this is not the Unix Philosophy and that Clang has no business infringing on their C Preprocessor Freedom (tm).

This is for the clangd service (i.e integration with IDEs like Visual Studio). Actual unix build systems will probably never use this.
IDEs are already rubbish / against unix philosophy so it cant really do any more damage to those types of developers

[doom_Oo7]

This is for the clangd service (i.e integration with IDEs like Visual Studio). Actual unix build systems will probably never use this.

Did you even glance at the video ? The point of this tool is to help current build systems support C++ modules. So it is *entirely* about build systems.