DQdqv·Dec 8, 2021
I thought it was abandoned! This is great to hear it just moved. Is there anyone at Mozilla that can update the old DXR repo [0] to direct people to MozSearch?
[0]: https://github.com/mozilla/dxr
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dxr
DEPRECATED - Powerful search for large codebases
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DEPRECATED - Powerful search for large codebases
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Observed mentions: 2012-09-19 15:16:39 UTC to 2021-12-08 18:34:57 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesThere is DXR from Mozilla but I'm not sure how generalised it is.
https://github.com/mozilla/dxr
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https://github.com/Andersbakken/rtags/ "RTags is a client/server application that indexes c/c++ code and keeps a persistent in-memory database of references, symbolnames, completions etc."
https://rprichard.github.com/sourceweb/ "A C/C++ source code indexer and navigator"
https://github.com/etaoins/qconnectlint "qconnectlint is a Clang tool for statically verifying the consistency of signal and slot connections made with Qt's QObject::connect."
https://github.com/woboq/woboq_codebrowser "The Woboq Code Browser is a web-based code browser for C/C++ projects. Check out https://code.woboq.org/ for an example!"
https://github.com/mozilla/dxr "DXR is a source code cross-reference tool that uses static analysis data collected by instrumented compilers."
https://github.com/eschulte/clang-mutate "This tool performs a
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number of operations on C-language source files."
https://github.com/gmarpons/Crisp "A coding rule validation add-on for LLVM/clang. Crisp rules are written in Prolog. A high-level declarative DSL to easily write new rules is under development. It will be called CRISP, an acronym for Coding Rules in Sugared Prolog."
https://github.com/drothlis/clang-ctags "Generate tag file for C++ source code."
https://github.com/exclipy/clang_indexer "This is an indexer for C and C++ based on the libclang library."
https://github.com/holtgrewe/linty "Linty - C/C++ Style Checking with Python & libclang."
https://github.com/axw/cmonster "cmonster is a Python wrapper for the Clang C++ parser."
https://github.com/rizsotto/Constantine "Constantine is a toy project to learn how to write clang plugin. Implements pseudo const analysis. Generates warnings about variables, which were declared without const qualifier."
https://github.com/jessevdk/cldoc "cldoc is a Clang based documentation generator for C and C++. cldoc tries to solve the issue of writing C/C++ software documentation with a modern, non-intrusive and robust approach."
https://github.com/AlexDenisov/ToyClangPlugin "The simplest Clang plugin implementing a semantic check for Objective-C. This example shows how to use the DiagnosticsEngine (emit warnings, errors, fixit hints). See also http://l.rw.rw/clang_plugin for step-by-step instructions."
https://phabricator.kde.org/source/clazy "clazy is a compiler plugin which allows clang to understand Qt semantics. You get more than 50 Qt related compiler warnings, ranging from unneeded memory allocations to misusage of API, including fix-its for automatic refactoring."
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=blob_plai...
"LibreOffice uses a Clang plugin infrastructure to check during the build various things, some more, some less specific to the LibreOffice source code. There are currently around 50 such checkers, from flagging C-style casts and uses of reserved identifiers to ensuring that code adheres to lifecycle protocols for certain LibreOffice-specific classes. They may serve as examples for writing RecursiveASTVisitor-based plugins.""