lsif-clang

Language Server Indexing Format (LSIF) generator for C, C++ and Objective C (by sourcegraph)

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  • The technology behind GitHub’s new code search
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Feb 2023
    In the top right corner of the tooltip it will say either "Search-based" or "Precise" - in this case, you're right, we don't have the abseil-cpp repo indexed so it falls back to search-based as you describe.

    We do have a C++ code indexer in beta, https://github.com/sourcegraph/lsif-clang - it is based on clang but C++ indexing is notably harder to do automatically/without-setup due to the varying build systems that need to be understood in order to invoke the compiler.

  • GitHub Code Search (Preview)
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jul 2022
    Interesting because on https://lsif.dev/ I see that LSIF support for C++, which basically is just a wrapper around clangd AFAIU, is deprecated. Is there something else that replaced it?
  • SCIP - a better code indexing format than LSIF
    1 project | /r/programming | 8 Jun 2022
    We already have an LSIF indexer for C++ (lsif-clang); however, that is not as feature complete as the other indexers. Moreover, the codebase is forked off of Clang 10, so upgrading to newer Clang versions (and build a SCIP indexer on top of that) will be a challenge.
  • Google Is 2B Lines of Code–and It's All in One Place
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2022
    - Go:

    Why are not all repos covered?

    Because different languages have different build systems, so inferring the right build commands, dependencies etc. is not so straightforward; these are necessary per-requisites for compiler-accurate cross references. We're working on fixing this with auto-indexing: https://docs.sourcegraph.com/code_intelligence/explanations/...

    For C and C++ specifically, auto-indexing is challenging because of the large variety in build systems, informal specification of dependencies (such as in a README instead of a machine-readable format), and platform-specific code.

    Outside of auto-indexing, we do have an indexer for C and C++ right now (https://github.com/sourcegraph/lsif-clang) which can be run in CI; that way one can generate an index and upload it to Sourcegraph on a regular basis. It is 'Partially available' (https://docs.sourcegraph.com/code_intelligence/references/in...) right now. We're keenly aware of the interest in C++, and are working our way through different languages based on usage.

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