On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:28 AM, David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> wrote:

> > One was already mentioned by Stephen Leake: refactoring. Actually,
> > anything that requires semantic knowledge of the source code you are
> > working on. You could ask for a listing of places dependent of word
> > size, for instance, or highlight the places where certain idiom is used.
>
> CEDET will most probably never be able to refactor C++ code, aside from
> very simple cases. There are very few IDEs out there which even try to
> do that; from my experience, none of them do it 100% reliably (just
> bring some meta template programming into the game and see what
> happens). IMHO, "Refactoring C++" should not be in the job description.


Though I haven't used it myself, presumably one of these IDEs is
Eclipse CDT[0].  According to this article[1], CDT includes a full
C/C++ parser that's under active development (item 4) as well as
extensive support for static analysis (item 5) and refactoring
(item 6).  Perhaps there are technical or licensing-related issues
(see also item 9 regarding LLVM and Clang) that would make it a bad
fit for integrating with Emacs in some way, but otherwise it might
be worth a look.  The wiki is here[2].

[0] https://www.eclipse.org/cdt/
[1]
http://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/october/article1.php
[2] https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/

Josh