On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 11:47 AM David Malcolm via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-05-17 at 17:28 +0300, Eli Zaretskii via Gcc wrote: > > Dear GCC developers, > > [CCing Frank, re the systemtap LSP implementation] > > Hi Eli > > > Emacs 29, to be released soon, will come with a built-in client for > > the LSP protocol. This allows to enhance important Emacs features, > > such as at-point documentation, on-the-fly diagnostic annotations, > > finding definitions and uses of program identifiers, enhanced > > completion of symbols and code, etc., based on capabilities of LSP > > servers. > > Excellent. Do you have a handy link to the specific LSP methods that > Emacs consumes? > > > > > The Emacs LSP client comes with support for many popular LSP servers > > OOTB and for all the programming languages supported by Emacs. > > However, all the available servers for C and C++ languages are based > > on Clang. AFAIU, this is because GCC does not yet have its own > > implementation of the LSP. I found this message posted to gcc- > > patches > > in 2017: > > > > https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc-patches/2017-07/msg01448.html > > > > which described the initial implementation of LSP in GCC, but I seem > > to be unable to find out what happened with that since then. > > > > Are there plans for implementing the LSP in GCC? If so, which GCC > > version is expected to have this included? > > I wrote that prototype, but I haven't touched it since 2017, and I > already have more than enough other work, alas. I'm happy to help if > someone wants to pick up the work and finish it. > Maybe create a BZ and gcc.gnu.org/projects entry for this work? Jason
