[distcc] Further progress on include_server macro processing

[Martin Pool]

On 16 February 2011 22:51, Alastair Rankine <arsptr at internode.on.net> wrote:
> So as a followup to my last email, I've found a few bugs in the macro processing code in the include_server. This doesn't yet mean that the boost headers can be parsed in a reasonable time, but I'm going to continue to work on it.
>
> I've got a branch here which has fixes and test cases for all the bugs found to date:
>
> https://code.launchpad.net/~arankine/distcc/issue16
>
> Briefly, the fixes are as follows:
>
> - Handle ## operator immediately following a function-like macro: FOO(bar)##baz
> - Handle spaces between a symbol and parens for a function-like macro invocation: FOO (bar)
> - Handle spaces in the argument list of a multiple argument macro definition & invocation: FOO(bar, baz)
> - Spaces around the ## operator as mentioned in the previous email: a ## b

I had a look over them and they look pretty plausible.

I don't know if Fergus is very active on this anymore.  (I heard a
rumor about Google having switched to a fork of distcc based on their
proprietary infrastructure?)  Perhaps you should get commit access if
you want to work on it.

>
> By the way, In the last email I was trying to float the idea of not populating the value set with verbatim function-like macros. I haven't yet decided whether or not this is a good idea, so I haven't committed it to the branch above.
>
> Very much interested in any feedback.
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